Sentence examples for be acted upon by from inspiring English sources

For Anselm, then, it is obvious that a being who is in no way passive, who cannot experience anything of which he is not himself the origin, is better and greater than any being who can be acted upon by something outside himself.

Certainly these are differences which may be acted upon by the lawmakers.

To become functional, the gonads must be acted upon by secretions from the hypophysis.

All applications or requests not approved by a loan officer must be acted upon by the committee.

That in general it is impossible for the infinite to be acted upon by the finite or to act upon it may be shown as follows.

For all their sound and fury, they're essentially passive creatures, who expect every wish to be acted upon by obliging grown-ups.

Orbital elements, and hence the shape and orientation of the orbit, also vary with time because each object is gravitationally acting on, and being acted upon by, all other bodies in the solar system.

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In other words, intuition happens only in the midst of the dialectical process of acting upon and in turn being acted upon by things.

He developed various designs, including curved vanes that were acted upon by the rocket jet.

When the hydrogel was acted upon by an esterase, IPF was released in a sustained manner.