The phrase "acting knowingly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is aware of the implications or consequences of their actions, often in a legal or ethical context.
Example: "The defendant was found guilty of acting knowingly in the commission of the crime."
Alternatives: "acting with awareness" or "acting with intent".
Under American criminal law, those owners would have to be shown to have been acting knowingly in order for a prosecution to succeed.
Such acting knowingly and willingly is expressed as the rational activity of an animal, that is, as animal activity distinguished formally as rational.
On one side are the corporations that stand to profit monetarily, acting (knowingly or unknowingly) under the guise of common good, of ending world hunger, of reducing pesticides and advancing science (promises which genetic engineering has failed to deliver on).
All of this emphasis upon the unity of the human being comes out clearly in Aquinas' understanding of the mode of human activity as acting knowingly and willingly.
Nor can it act "knowingly" or "corruptly".
The conflict of interest laws prohibit a Government official from knowingly acting on behalf of a future client.
Key points in the report include: Its claim that the UK intelligence agencies are not knowingly acting illegally, though it leaves open past behaviour.
The more we film — and indisputably, we film a lot today — the more time our kids are, to one degree or another, knowingly acting a scene for the camera rather than just being present.
LCA filed a criminal complaint against Pel-Freez, citing cruelty to animals, but Benton County Detective Benjamin Scott found that none of the employees were acting in a "knowingly" cruel manner, and prosecutor Nathan Smith opted not to press charges, according to documents obtained by HuffPost.
The human agent acts knowingly-willingly.
"To prove the corporation guilty, prosecutors have to show that its employees, acting in the scope of their duties, knowingly acted in ways that endangered Benefield's life, legal experts said".
