Sentence examples for acts instead from inspiring English sources

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The new law specifies that violating ethics rules -- such as the one-year ban on lobbying -- are to be considered criminal acts, instead of simply civil infractions.

On Wednesday at the David H. Koch Theater the company opened with Peter Martins's sleek 1991 version of "The Sleeping Beauty," which features one intermission and two acts instead of three.

Mitt Romney, given his international business background, should understand this, but he acts instead as if he learned his foreign policy at the International House of Pancakes, where the menu and architecture rarely changes.

(Brantley) ★ 'Man and Superman' This sparkling adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic, abridged to two acts instead of four (but including the "Don Juan in Hell" sequence), benefits from the vivacity of its cast (especially Max Gordon Moore as Shaw's mouthpiece Jack Tanner) and fleet direction by David Staller.

By turning to the N.S.A., which has no statutory authority to investigate domestic criminal acts, instead of the Department of Homeland Security, which does have such authority, Google is clearly seeking to avoid having its search engine, e-mail and other Web services regulated as part of the nation's "critical infrastructure".

(Ken Jaworowski) ★ 'Man and Superman' This sparkling adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic, abridged to two acts instead of four (but including the "Don Juan in Hell" sequence), benefits from the vivacity of its cast (especially Max Gordon Moore as Shaw's mouthpiece, Jack Tanner) and fleet direction by David Staller.

(Isherwood) ★ 'Man and Superman' This sparkling adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic, abridged to two acts instead of four (but including the "Don Juan in Hell" sequence), benefits from the vivacity of its cast (especially Max Gordon Moore as Shaw's mouthpiece, Jack Tanner) and fleet direction by David Staller.

In self-positioning systems, the mobile acts instead as measuring unit.

You're meeting with the toy people before you've written the outline; it's six acts instead of four that was a horrible shock to me; you have DVD extras, which means you're followed around by a camera the whole time, and they want different cuts and different aspect ratios; you have the Webisodes.

Fire eating, angle grinding, and sex acts instead of human blood raining from the ceiling and Wesley Snipes attacking a load of vampires with a shotgun.

The texts are all generally the same in each case, and all differ from the one surviving copy of Monteverdi's musical score, which has three acts instead of five, a different prologue, a different ending, and many scenes and passages either omitted or rearranged.

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