Sentence examples for act were the from inspiring English sources
The first three sections of the 1866 Act were the models for parts of two subsequent civil rights statutes.
Only in the 1960s, through the Twenty-fourth Amendment (barring poll taxes) and the Voting Rights Act, were the full voting rights of African Americans guaranteed.
The problems some perceived with the act were the result of misunderstanding or misapplication, he argued, and he was not sure what, in the Tony Blair formula, needed "rebalancing", or "made more British", as the Tories prefer to put it.
The fields targeted by the act were the ones that benefitted most, but every area in education benefitted to some degree, because resources put into one area from outside free up resources for others.
The main provisions of the act were the appointment of a governor-general of Fort William in Bengal with supervisory powers over the presidencies of Madras (now Chennai) and Bombay (now Mumbai).
All of the major government achievements of the postwar era, from Eisenhower's highway program to the civil rights breakthroughs of the 1960s to the 21st-century Cures Act, were the product of bipartisan negotiations and compromise.
The act was the very refinement of malice.
Lady Gaga's main creative act is the act of being Lady Gaga.
The act is the bedrock of modern employment law.
The next act was the evening's best.
