The Act of Union is the foundational event of modern Scotland, and not just for nationalists – although they see 1707 as a defining act of grand historic treachery and corruption.
His suicide last week, at age 46, will unfortunately be read as a defining act of imagination in a career that is always being called dark, ironic and, above all, postmodern, the final statement of a splintering consciousness.
It was during this campaign that the business lobby succeeded in redefining American citizens as "taxpayers," a practice that politicians have followed ever since, as if the defining act of citizenship were not casting a ballot but filing a return.
Phishing in its broadest sense can be defined as a scalable act of deception whereby impersonation is used by an attacker to obtain information from an individual (i.e., the target) [1].
A suicide attempt was defined as a completed act of self-harm with at least some expressed intent to die (scoring at least 1 on item 10 of Suicide Intent Scale [ 27]).
The term 'decline' in this study is defined as an act of a screened, eligible and randomized volunteer not showing up to receive the first vaccine [DNA or placebo] dose within 30 days after randomization.
Briefly, platform switching is defined as an "act of changing an implant abutment to one with a smaller diameter, so as to place the implant-abutment interface medial to the edge of the implant platform" (Laney 2007).
In international law, rape committed by state officials can be defined as an act of torture, but in the DRC, rape as an act of torture goes unacknowledged and unprosecuted, according to the report.
"If the blast is defined as an act of terrorism, it will strike a huge blow to its tourism industry above all else.
For example, even though the trial defined "sex act" as "a single act of vaginal penetration, with or without ejaculation," there is still much ambiguity regarding what counts as a sex act, and the overlap in meaning with local concepts of "sex," "days" (on which people have sex), and "rounds" (there may be numerous "rounds" of sex in a "day") is only partial.
It tracks global deaths from terror attacks, which it defines as "an intentional act of violence or threat of violence by a non-state actor".
