Sentence examples for acting to run from inspiring English sources

In 2007, he took a break from acting to run for the Republican nomination for president.

The connecting thread through it all is Spencer, who largely gave up acting to run the club (though she landed a small role as Slatternly Woman in the 1987 film "Ironweed").

MacDonald, who after subsequent small roles in The Bill and Birds of a Feather, quit acting to run a south London locksmith and key-cutting firm, said: "I am absolutely chuffed to bits and so excited to be briefly joining the cast of EastEnders.

Mr. Zoellick appointed an acting director to run the integrity unit, and his office said he would conduct a thorough search for a successor.

In 1982, he retired from acting to concentrate on running the telecommunications company he had set up in Santa Monica 13 years earlier.

Hamilton made only a few more appearances on television after Starsky & Hutch, and in 1985 gave up acting to concentrate on running a nightclub/art gallery called Citadel d'Haiti on Sunset Boulevard.

That problem is the worst in the farm belt, especially the dry west side of the San Joaquin, where motorists on Interstate 5 see inflammatory billboards denouncing the "Congress-created Dust Bowl". They protest Congress acting to restore salmon runs and protect endangered fish.

The Green Hornet is back--directing the action in a scene-within-a-scene from "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story". Williams left acting long ago to run a communications business in Santa Monica, but said he eagerly accepted an offer from the producers to play a minor role in the biopic.

When the other officers came to the scene, the correction officer allegedly told them that Browder was acting up and tried to run away.

These films, however, could be Baldwin's swan song, as he's said that he plans on retiring from acting in 2012, perhaps to run for political office.

On the way he sparked a campaign to get dog acting put on a par with human acting to allow him to run for best supporting actor at the Baftas and Oscars, or at least get an honorary award.