The phrase "act the first" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could be used in a theatrical context to refer to performing the first act of a play or drama.
Example: "As the curtain rises, the actors prepare to act the first, setting the stage for the unfolding drama."
Alternatives: "perform the first act" or "play the first scene".
Why should America be the first to speak, the first to act, the first to feel compelled to respond?
If it does not then: - the Chancellor would set out in the Autumn Statement the reasons for the breach - the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions would table a motion in the House of Commons and lead a debate and a vote on the government's decision not to act The first cap will be set in next year's budget.
Congress and other powers in Washington failed to get the facts and act the first time around -- when lenders were engaged in a frenzy of predatory lending.
Mr Plaatje was writing in response to the Natives Land Act, the first major piece of legislated racial segregation.
And the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill Obama signed into law, is essentially her doing.
He also sponsored what would become in 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act, the first federal law to regulate wages and hours.
It will be a year before the act-the first leopard act to be seen in the U.S. since 1939-can be presented to the public.
The two-seater was following a tough act: the first-generation SL's included the famed 300SL gull wing, the 300SL coupe and the 190SL, two-seaters that screamed sport.
I know that my one-act, the first of the evening, forces the audience to confront serious questions — notably, "How long until Woody's one-act starts?" I don't feel them asking this as much during yours, Elaine, possibly because yours is second and by process of elimination they know Woody's is imminent.
The 1994 landmark Violence Against Women Act ― the first federal legislation acknowledging domestic violence and sexual assault as crimes ― was only a seed in the minds of ambitious advocates like herself. .
It also supported the 1934 National Firearms Act — the first major federal gun-control legislation — and the 1938 Federal Firearms Act, which together created a licensing system for dealers and prohibitively taxed the private ownership of automatic weapons ("machine guns").
