Sentence examples for acted upon rather from inspiring English sources

That the women in his books are acted upon rather than acting is not a complaint exclusively about his women, either.

Amis of course knows that the question is not about whether women in fiction are allowed to be attractive – that it has to do with their agency, their interiority, the sense that they are acted upon rather than acting in his fiction.

His characters are, as a British critic, Melvyn Bragg, says, "acted upon rather than acting for themselves"; often westerners at the mercy of unpredictable events in incomprehensible Arab lands.When Mr Bowles handed in the manuscript of "The Sheltering Sky" to Doubleday, the New York publishing house said it "unhesitatingly rejected it".

This calls for visionary leadership from these countries and an understanding that there is a commonality of long-term interests that needs to be recognized and acted upon, rather than being sidetracked by short-term policy conflicts.

It's targeting this very broadly at developers and businesses that want to be able to turn any unstructured audio data — recordings of meetings, for instance, or audio books, phone calls, conferences, interviews, and so on — into data their business can analyse and act upon, rather than leave untapped.

Their recommendations are seldom acted upon but rather are subjected to a new panel of researchers... Research has become & substitute for action.

Another interpretation sees the expressive crowd as equally equipped with an object, but with an object that must be acted upon symbolically rather than directly.

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In his conviction that a concept can be fully understood only when acted upon, Nakae emphasized practice rather than abstract learning.

He has written to Sir Howard Davies, who is leading the commission on expansion, saying his recommendations should be acted upon within a year, rather than in the summer of 2015.

Of course, under direct force, it will usually be true that the coercee does not act, but rather is acted upon, as H. J. McCloskey puts it (McCloskey 1980).