Sentence examples for an ongoing act from inspiring English sources

Yet the situation continues to be described as an ongoing act of genocide in which hundreds of thousands of people are being slaughtered.

Mindfulness as we've been studying it the past 40 years is an ongoing act in the moment, so to speak, a way of being.

Maintaining a Facebook page is an ongoing act of curation.

There is nothing nobler than to be a teacher -- it is an ongoing act of service that empowers our children and shapes our future.

It does this by pursuing an ongoing act of war against the residents, or assassination of Palestinian leadership soon after agreeing to talk peace, or moving its tanks inside the Palestinian area and bulldozing homes, or indiscriminately carrying out helicopter raids in residential areas by missile attacks under the guise of fighting terrorism.

After it is set up, you have a duty, as an ongoing act of devotion to the deities, to keep your lararium clean.

Alongside his practical plea for religious attention to the needs of working families and the role of labor unions, Mr. Sweeney offered a capsule theology of work, rooted in the sacraments and a doctrine of "God's ongoing act of creation".

Some people I spoke with actually considered "stormproofing" a dangerous term, because it suggests the goal is reachable, even if it is used simply to refer to the ongoing act of preparing a city for natural disasters.

Hix arrives on cue, and they resume what seems an ongoing double act, Hirst cracking wise, Hix his lugubrious straight man.

This was acknowledged publicly on June 12th by commission spokeswoman Sarah Christie who told the Monterey County Weekly: "Mr. Parker, in essence, leased an ongoing Coastal Act violation when he leased the campground".

The attack on Sony is an ongoing digital act, accompanied by an untraceable emailed declaration of terror against a major multi-national corporation.