Sentence examples for be acted upon from inspiring English sources
verb
To do something.
- If you don't act soon, you will be in trouble.
It seems a promising suggestion, but not one likely to be acted upon soon.
It has yet to be acted upon.
There are hundreds of requests from all across the city waiting to be acted upon.
Even some of the more modest proposals are unlikely to be acted upon.
"The medical model assumes the woman is passive and her body needs to be acted upon.
"They see that their decisions can be acted upon, but also sometimes that they won't be.
And a retracted confession in our jurisdiction can still be acted upon if you have corroboration.
"It could be acted upon very quickly by the heads of government".
To become functional, the gonads must be acted upon by secretions from the hypophysis.
If that promise is to mean anything, America's accumulated experience in Afghanistan must be acted upon, unequivocally.
Like other of Kafka's doomed protagonists, he errs by failing to act, instead allowing himself to be acted upon.
