Sentence examples for act to raise from inspiring English sources

Some of these muscles act to raise the feathers, others to depress them.

He has already found someone 30 years younger, an act to raise some eyebrows in certain areas of society.

The president's deficit commission recommended that Congress act to raise America's petrol tax, which is among the rich world's lowest and hasn't been increased since 1993.

At that point, if Congress does not act to raise the limit, America would be unable to pay all its bills.

In order to release the $582m, Congress had to revise the Helms-Biden act to raise this number to the UN's new cap.

Also in 1764, Prime Minister George Grenville issued the Sugar Act to raise revenue and attempt to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies.

In Dr. Accili's research, some of the progenitor cells went on to produce another hormone, glucagon, which acts to raise blood sugar.

Mitsubishi UFJ cut its full-year profit forecast by 77percentt last month, and in recent months it has acted to raise capital of ¥1.3 trillion, or $13 billion.

A6 NATIONAL A8-11 More States Acting To Raise Minimum Wage Although Congress has declined for almost a decade to raise the federal minimum wage, a third of the states have acted on their own to set higher minimum wages.

Faced with the prospect of large and immediate tax increases, Congress acted to raise income tax rates only on relatively well-off people — and also to allow payroll taxes to increase for all working Americans.

War also forced Hastings (or so he believed) into dubious acts to raise extra funds, two of which the demand for a subsidy to the company from Chait Singh, the raja of Banaras, and the requisitioning of the treasures of the begums of Oudh (the mother and grandmother of the vizier)—were to count heavily against him later.