Sentence examples for conventional acts from inspiring English sources

Its sections are more like movements than the conventional "acts" of a screenplay.

Though there may be rites of entrance that are to be observed, these frequently become no more than conventional acts, placing few demands upon the initiate.

They have more conventional acts like bands, and then there are more eccentric performers like a human fountain.

In 2012, the mayor of Nagoya, Takashi Kawamura, a prominent nationalist, denied there was a massacre at Nanjing, saying there were only "conventional acts of combat".

THW shows us how these front-line warriors are transforming conventional acts of defiance into a different kind of warfare that is both visionary and unyieldingly compelling.

As a presidential candidate last year, Trump called for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the U.S. Trump's travel ban reflects his primary focus on conventional acts of terror as opposed to mass shootings, which studies say are becoming more frequent and deadly in recent years.

Moreover the reason he takes this to be is that he thinks that promising is a conventional act, one that invokes a certain practice to formalize the action.

Yeo et al. described a lower incidence of bleeding and blood products transfusions in patients anticoagulated according to a lower than conventional ACT target [26].

If an incursion happened, would it look like a conventional act of aggression, or like Crimea — where so-called "little green men" (Russian soldiers in green army uniforms without insignia) began appearing, quietly, in February 2014?

Far removed from the sequined, timewarp world of conventional circus acts and routines, its thrilling shows were a genuine assault on all the senses.

This is another exercise in slightly fey Cirque fantasizing, full of conventional circus acts mixed with generic choreography and bent to a flimsy narrative concept, accompanied by the sort of music mimes would make if mimes made music.