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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acted based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing actions taken as a result of specific information, advice, or circumstances.
Example: "She acted based on the recommendations of her colleagues to improve the project outcome."
Alternatives: "acted according to" or "took action based on".
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The more that regional powers publicly doubted U.S. capabilities or intentions, the more independently they acted based on that perception.
Ms. Drew reiterated that she had acted based on information that was correct to "the best of her knowledge".
Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, releases a statement saying Mr. Trump acted based on "clear recommendations" from Mr. Sessions and Mr. Rosenstein.
"We think the NATO forces acted based on wrong intelligence given to them by their local associates, who are usually trying to hit their tribal or political rivals by misleading NATO forces," he said.
In a statement from Michael Evans, the president of Alibaba, the company said the decision "leads us to question whether the U.S.T.R. acted based on the actual facts or was influenced by the current political climate" — an apparent reference to the negative language about China that Donald J. Trump espoused during the campaign and as president-elect.
In comments published Friday on the Web site of the semiofficial news agency ISNA, Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi, who favors a political system in which elections merely endorse "divinely chosen" clerical leaders, congratulated the people of Tunisia and Egypt, stating that they had acted "based on the principles" of Iran's Islamic revolution.
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The greater one's moral self-constraint (i.e., one's virtue), the more one acts based on reason, and the less one acts based on inclination or impulse (MM 6 382 n).
If the value of acting is high, and the cost of acting when wrong is low, it can make sense to act based on even a weak correlation.
As primates, we evolved to act based on social status.
The IHFFC can only act based on the consent of the concerned State or States.
"Now we just want to act, based on the needs and requirements of the market".
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