"acts according to" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It typically implies that someone follows the principles or standards of something. For example: "The government acts according to the laws established by parliament."
He deliberately changes how he acts according to the situation he finds himself in.
"We are convinced that he acts according to a political and religious inspiration of a Salafist nature," he said.
"The U.S. acts according to U.S. interests, and it has strong economic and political interests in the region, beyond, or regardless of, Israel.
But mainly he casts himself as an independent who acts according to his conscience, even if he does not make everyone happy.
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The crowd is portrayed as a single, unified entity, which acts according to "mob psychology"—a set of primitive instincts (fear, followed by flight) that favor self-preservation over the welfare of others, and cause "stampedes" and "tramplings".
"She is absorbed by a social function," he continued, "and without giving the slightest sign of comprehension or of interpretation, she acts according to the will and the convulsions of a being more vast than she".
Christ's humanity is fully that of every human being; it possesses all the characteristics of the human being—"each nature (of Christ) acts according to its properties," Chalcedon proclaimed, following Pope Leo I without separating itself from the divine Word.
The crowd is portrayed as a single, unified entity, which acts according to "mob psychology" — a set of primitive instincts (fear, followed by flight) that favor self-preservation over the welfare of others, and cause "stampedes" and "tramplings".
"We either need a prime minister who is ideologically committed to a two-state solution and has the power to move the country in that direction, or a very flexible opportunist who appears committed to the right but acts according to what is necessary".
The Iranian leadership sees certain markers in its history — the U.S.-backed coup in 1953 and U.S. support of the Shah; the development of an atom bomb in Israel; the eight-year war with Iraq, in which the U.S. backed Saddam Hussein — and acts according to its own "version of rational," Dagan said.
