Sentence examples for allow an act of from inspiring English sources

Congress cannot stand aside and allow an act of war to destroy the nation's transportation network.

Besides, as TR Andhyarujina, a former solicitor general of India, wrote in his critique of the judgment "when a party to a litigation takes the law into its own hands and alters the existing state of affairs to its advantage (as the demolition in 1992 did in favour of the Hindu plaintiffs) … the court would not allow an act of lawlessness to benefit the party that indulged in it.

The folks who criticize Israel make themselves look just as bad when they allow an act of terror to go by without even batting an eyelash.

The Act allowed a number of rivers to be made navigable, and in each case, undertakers were appointed, to carry out the work, as were commissioners, chosen from the local justices, who were responsible for confirming the tolls.

Statutory instruments are a form of legislation that allows new parts of an act of Parliament to be brought into force without Parliament having to pass a new act.

Google is so big and influential that its threat to shut its China offices if the Chinese government doesn't allow uncensored search is essentially an act of statecraft.

Hasan's tenor network, though rudimentary and undoubtedly requiring revision - as she would herself have said - allows us to engage in an act of 'defamiliarisation', that is, to take something so apparently self-evident, and explore its cultural place and its cultural affordances.

Surely the risk that a person convicted of libel will inflict future injury to another's reputation by libeling again is transparently of a different nature than the risk created by allowing someone who has committed an act of domestic violence to possess a lethal weapon.

"Also, where off-the-ball incidents are concerned, the policy adjustment will allow action to be taken where an act of misconduct could not have been seen by the match officials, even though they may have seen some part of the players coming together.

Other women cut or color their hair in wild colors as an act of rebellion, allowing the bangs to show.

The country's constitution makes special mention of making "reasonable provision for the welfare and maintenance of the aged", an act of parliament allows for the election of older people into local government and issues affecting older people have been included in the Poverty Eradication Action Plan and strategic plans on agriculture, health and Aids.