Sentence examples for acting on him from inspiring English sources

"We aren't going to pretend he's not there, but we have no means of acting on him.

In a telephone interview Thursday, Tregg Duerson said that his father had changed his mind over the next several years, as news media reports convinced him that the link was not only real, but acting on him.

Lying back on the thick cushions of an armchair in his villa, with the windows curtained against an angry sun that was threatening to evaporate the Zaire River as it slid like a grassy ocean past his front door, he talked with the quiet contentment of a man whose thoughts were acting on him as comfortingly as the hands of a good masseur.

A college president was arrested on drug charges after officers acting on a tip caught him smoking marijuana and found scores of marijuana plants in his basement.

His progress consists of just entertaining such thoughts now instead of acting on them, which Pat M. reassures him is almost the same as patience.

After acting on stage with him in Dublin Joan Plowright recalled how Welles would suddenly improvise a great speech none of them had heard before.

In each of the three recent cases, Mr. Levy said he was acting on authority given him under a 1996 law that expanded the chancellor's power over superintendent appointments and removed considerable control from local district board members.

His capacity for thinking independently, and acting on principle, isolated him from just about everyone.

He fought for and won ownership of his master recordings from Capitol Records in the 1990s, acting on advice given him on the subject by another country music star with an astute business sense, Buck Owens.

For many years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies spied on him, acting on suspicions as disturbing as a tip that he had been a Russian spy in Berlin; as vague as an unease with his support of civil rights and pacifist and socialist causes; and as goofy as claims that he was working on a death ray or that he was heading a Communist conspiracy to take over Hollywood.

Joseph, acting on her behalf, urged him to stay and offered him the leadership of a combined CPRS and policy unit.