Sentence examples for cases act from inspiring English sources

The performers may not have been able to sing or, in many cases, act; but they danced way better than your average wedding guests.

Mr. Karzai had previously expressed interest in regulating both Afghan security companies, which in some cases act as private armies for other power brokers, and foreign companies, some of which have been involved in civilian casualties.

In some cases, these chemicals are thought to mimic female sex hormones – oestrogens – and in other cases act as anti-androgens, the male sex hormones, thereby interfering with the male reproductive system.

Now it seems that neurotrophins in some cases act as both the accelerator and the brakes.

The results also suggest that the 2-pyridone dimer may in certain cases act as a supramolecular analogue of phenazine.

Mill suggests that in the social sciences, the individual cases act "conjunctively," in just the way that they act in mechanics (Logic, VI, ix, 1).

In many cases, acts of discrimination are attributed to collective agents, rather than to natural persons acting in their individual capacities.

At first Las Cases acted as his secretary, compiling what was later to be the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène (first published in 1823).

In some cases, acts of parliament had to be passed to ensure construction could be completed.

The graphene sheet in both cases acts as acceptor since carbon is slightly more electronegative than hydrogen.

p21, a cyclin kinase inhibitor which has pleiotropic effects on the cell cycle, in many cases acts to suppress cell cycle progression and to prevent apoptosis.