The phrase "acts in the wake of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is done as a result of or following an event or situation.
Example: "The government acts in the wake of the recent natural disaster to provide aid to affected communities."
Alternatives: "responds following" or "takes action after".
There is of course nothing wrong, in principle, with the department's use of intelligence information to protect our city from terrorist acts in the wake of 9/11.
A letter from the German foreign and defence ministries said the deployment was aimed at preventing "terrorist acts" in the wake of the Paris attacks, and supporting France and other partners in their fight against Isis.
An edict went out early last year warning players to clean up their end-zone acts in the wake of orchestrated celebrations by Horn (who had hidden a cellphone in the padding of the goal post) and Owens (who, in 2002, pulled a Sharpie out of his sock and signed a football).
The colonies, in solidarity with the Province of Massachusetts Bay, which had been singled out for punishment by those acts in the wake of the Boston Tea Party, had organized a Congress to meet in September 1774.
After all, News UK had to clean up its act in the wake of the hacking saga and related dramas.
Neither did he rein back Wall Street with regulation (although the government did pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the wake of the Enron scandal).
The Anderson report comes after parliament's intelligence and security committee recommended a new intelligence services act in the wake of the disclosures by the whistleblower, Edward Snowden.
Yet successive Conservative ministers have failed to act on that report, and are now failing to act in the wake of Grenfell.
In their letter, the MEPs expressed disappointment that the UK and other governments had not acted in the wake of previous data leaks such as the Panama Papers.
Acting in the wake of a 2001 Supreme Court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency issued "guidance" that effectively weakened longstanding protections for isolated wetlands and small streams.
They claim that the PCAOB, which was established in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley act in the wake of huge accounting scandals at Enron and elsewhere, is unconstitutional.
