Sentence examples for acting on one from inspiring English sources

"Musharraf's public statements about bin Laden and Pearl make one question the quality of the intelligence he's acting on," one senior American diplomat said.

The Illinois legislature is acting on one, involving gun rights; it is time for lawmakers to act on the other, which provides that juveniles who commit murder can, as a mandatory sentence, be locked up for life without any possibility of parole.

The website of the IEA currently boasts of its success in lobbying the Government to impose the strict new regulations on the use of grants, and declares that "it's pleasing to see the government acting on one of our recommendations".

Feeding one's hunger is a mortal need; acting on one's sexual impulses is a choice.

This "silent negative" -- objecting, but not directly acting on one's objection -- is, he said, a family trait.

In Italy, autonomist meant acting on one's own, but the movement known as Autonomia was people acting independently but also in concert, coöperating not because they were being ordered to by a charismatic leader but because they were suddenly guided by basic personal ideas and drives.

Neuroprotective strategies currently focus on acting on only one of the mechanisms.

In a particularly influential paradigm (Woodward, 1998), infants are first shown an agent repeatedly acting on, or towards, one of two available objects.

In total there are 1280 FDA-approved DrugBank compounds (chemical and biotherapeutics) associated with 1264 human protein targets, where each drug is acting on at least one human protein target.

Ivestigators said that acting on a tip, they questioned one suspect and obtained a confession and a cooperation agreement from him, and that he identified Derrek Pannell, a postal clerk, and Darren Rucker as his accomplices, the documents said.

But listening isn't the same as acting on what one hears and amending proposals accordingly.