The phrase "an act of either" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or decisions that can be attributed to one of two options or parties.
Example: "The committee's decision was seen as an act of either support or opposition, depending on the perspective of the members."
Alternatives: "a deed of either" or "an action of either".
In an act of either innocent or diabolical self-promotion, which amount to the same thing here, Lillian's cousin Raisele plants the seeds of discontent.
In an act of either incredible cool or something much more sinister, a young woman has robbed four Wachovia bank branches in Northern Virginia in recent weeks, all while seemingly immersed in cell phone chats, police say.
Issuing a press release about food vouchers for displaced people in Darfur (440,000 beneficiaries over seven months) was, in my view, an act of either wilful obfuscation or gross ineptitude.
That game at Giants Stadium was long ago, and this week, in an act of either graciousness or gamesmanship, New England Coach Bill Belichick gave Pennington a pass for that performance, which came after a preseason wrist injury cost him so much of the season and left him little time to recover his rhythm.
Instead of using that time on a project with a preordained objective, he asked, in what might be seen as an act of either modesty or bravura, that the telescope be pointed at a typical patch of sky and left there for the whole period, to see what it could see.The result was the Hubble Deep Field, a fantastically detailed image of a small region in a constellation called Ursa Major.
The crew yelled at him to get out, and in an act of either defiance or just plain douchery, he stole a decoration from the wall on his way out.
Leape [ 2] defines error as an unintended act of either commission or omission that did not achieve its intended outcome.
But an accompanying statement emailed by Cortes, and widely circulated by Pearce supporters and websites, actually borrowed text off a private message from the Recall Pearce campaign Facebook site in a strange act of either plagiarism or mockery.
"He was not a war criminal – but it was not an act of high chivalry either".
It then went on to hold that the Social Security Act is not an Act of Congress securing either 'equal rights' or 'civil rights' as those terms are used in § 1343.
Whereas on Wellman's account one can commit an act of terrorism without either engaging in or threatening violence, merely by making a threat in order to intimidate, on Goodin's account one need not even make a threat: one acts as a terrorist by merely issuing a warning about the acts of others that is meant to intimidate.
