The phrase "act to capture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is taking action to seize or obtain something, whether it be information, attention, or a physical object.
Example: "In order to improve our marketing strategy, we need to act to capture the interest of our target audience."
Alternatives: "take steps to seize" or "make efforts to obtain".
"John Kerry is proud that in those difficult days, this act to capture the attention of the country helped save lives," Mr. Wade added.
"Symbian is not dead, but it has a limited amount of time to act to capture developer mind share before it is too late," says Altman.
Boxer and environmentalists' issue is that the measure would allow officials at state and federal water management agencies to exceed the environmental pumping limits set under the Endangered Species Act to capture more water, especially during storms.
As for the law, Congress needs to beef up the Volcker Rule (part of the wider Dodd-Frank Act) to capture the spirit and power of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which banned commercial banks from engaging in investment banking activities and was successful at preventing the type of risk-taking that brought down Lehman Brothers and which has recently rocked JPMorgan Chase.
This is a phenomenon that has already been seen in the US, where a number of universities have acted to capture the benefits of financial aid and tax relief for themselves, undermining efforts to improve the affordability of higher education.
Even today, there are lingering questions about whether the Serbian government, long suspected of knowing Mr. Mladic's whereabouts, finally acted to capture him because of the combination of pressures: the critical report, a visit by a top European Union official, the jeopardy of Serbia's E.U. membership quest, and parliamentary elections next year.
The folate receptor is a protein which is over-expressed in various types of human tumours, where it acts to capture folate to feed rapidly dividing tumour cells.
Archaerhodopsins require the cofactor all-trans-retinal (ATR) as their essential chromophore, which acts to capture light (Chow et al. 2012).
In addition to the generation of the checkpoint signal, the kinetochore also acts to capture and stabilize spindle microtubules, ultimately using them to power transport of sister chromatids to the presumptive daughter cells.
And remember, the music doesn't have to be very loud, it can be quiet in a quiet scene to the point where people aren't focusing on it as it now just acts an aid to capture the scene.
When Mr. Zaidi hurled his shoes at Mr. Bush during the Dec. 14 news conference, the act seemed to capture a deeply felt emotion here.
