The phrase "acts were driven" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions or behaviors that are motivated or influenced by certain factors or circumstances.
Example: "The acts were driven by a desire for change and improvement within the community."
Alternatives: "actions were motivated" or "deeds were influenced".
Like Conan, she's a violent psychopath whose heroic acts are driven by her own selfish ambitions.
It is not possible to derive causality from these associations, and it is possible that increased stocking of ACTs is driven by greater consumer demand, or that price reductions are driven by increased availability of the drugs at competing outlets.
The very first piece of immigration legislation, the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, was driven through in response to scare stories about Caribbean immigrants.
Boris shows a powerful need to be loved; the whole chaotic act is driven by a need to make people smile with him, even when stuck on a zip-wire.
"We want students to have choice, we don't want to be in the position to say, 'This is the one and only test".' While the ACT is driven by high school curriculum, Mr. Caperton said, the new SAT will test "college success skills" -- critical thinking through reading, writing and arithmetic.
My hide and go seek act was driven by my limiting beliefs of me and the world around me.
In numb mutant embryos that lack tip cells or when N act is driven in the tip cell lineage, the BM ensheathes the whole tubule, and when numb is overexpressed, both tip cells remain free of extracellular matrix.
In a Drosophila genetic screen for Ras-cooperating genes (using ey>Ras ACT, where expression of Ras ACT is driven via the eyeless promoter throughout the developing eye), we identified the actin cytoskeletal regulatory genes, RhoGEF2 and DRac1 (Brumby et al., 2011).
Some of those participating said they were driven to act by the escalating violence around the country; too many people were dying in places like Homs for Damascenes to sit home and do nothing, they said.
Src42ACA and Src64B both cause a similar phenotype (E, G ) when coexpressed with Nact under E1Gal4, and both also result in decreased eye size in the absence of Nact (F, H ). (I – L ) UAS-N act and UAS-Src42A CA were driven in the developing wing using the vgGal4 driver.
