Sentence examples for acted upon are from inspiring English sources

But the existence of this community is significant and troubling, experts said, because it reinforces beliefs that, when acted upon, are criminal.

These two conceptions, however, are not separable in that in biobanking the populations which are studied and medically acted upon are also necessarily publics which have political significance.

(Again, people acted upon are subject to moral judgment as well as agents; reactions can be judged as well as actions).

Clear and careful thinking about what one hears others say enables one to discard teachings that, if acted upon, are unlikely to produce expected results and to follow teachings that, if acted upon, will lead one a desired goal, even the goal of the stillness of a mind that is not dealing in narratives and concepts.

They also have to be taught that many -- in fact, I think all of the ones you mentioned -- were acted upon, were corrected.

The revelation that their warnings were not acted upon was made at the start of the long-delayed inquest into the May 2002 Potters Bar train crash.

One answer which is mooted is that the capacity to act or be acted upon is the distinctive mark of real existence or 'that which is.' The Stoics accept this criterion and add the rider that only bodies can act or be acted upon.

An average idea acted upon is the better than the greatest intention or idea which has not seen the light of day.

The first was that the suicidal methods children proposed or acted upon were very different according to age.

(This may have been because the only desire she ever acted upon was cutting, but this is not explained or even mentioned again).

While in some cases this could be a useful source of information there was also a danger that the information received and acted upon was inaccurate.