The phrase "acts of theft" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to specific instances or occurrences of stealing or larceny.
Example: "The police reported several acts of theft in the neighborhood over the past month."
Alternatives: "theft incidents" or "instances of stealing."
What's at stake if hackers did break into the system is not just the individual acts of theft.
The Free Syrian Army issued a statement telling people to stay home and cooperate with their neighbors to "prevent acts of theft and rioting".
Many law-enforcement agencies became more concerned with regulating the crimes associated with the practice, especially acts of theft and robbery committed against clients.
The recent best-selling book "The Orchid Thief" is full of tales of obsessed individuals and the bizarre acts of theft and chicanery they used to obtain rare specimens.
"It really isn't all that unusual," said Will Cupchik, a Toronto psychologist who runs what he calls the Atypical Theft Offender Program and has written a book titled "Why Honest People Shoplift or Commit Other Acts of Theft".
Post-tax prices should be set at a level that would strike a balance between damping down use on the one hand, and discouraging a black market and the desperate acts of theft and prostitution to which addicts now resort to feed their habits.Selling even this flawed system to people in producer countries, where organised crime is the central political issue, is fairly easy.
"There was no act of theft," Mr. Guinot insisted.
For many of them, each act of theft felt like taking back something that had been stolen from them.
"They concluded that the removal of the recording was, in all probability, an act of theft orchestrated by an external organization".
Just as an unlocked door doesn't alter the act of theft, a short skirt doesn't alter the act of rape.
Even in his death, he succeeds in pulling off one final act of theft, depriving his victims of the justice they deserve.
