Sentence examples for crude act from inspiring English sources

He once told Senator Patrick Leahy to perform a crude act upon himself".

Or it was a crude act of vengeance that could polarise and destabilise Slovakian politics.

A large head of the goddess Aphrodite, copied in the first century from an ancient Greek model, has been disfigured by a cross gouged into her forehead, a crude act of branding.

Sometimes a blatantly crude act of inhumanity can become the catalyst that changes hearts and minds.

Morello and Saietta were members of the Black Hand, the name given to bands of Southern Italian immigrants who engaged in crude acts of extortion — threatening merchants with bodily injury if protection money wasn't paid.

The crude political act of renaming places in India has been, in essence, a delayed reaction against colonial impositions.

A similar observation has been made by Mavar-Manga et al. [ 67] who demonstrated that different constituents of crude extracts act on different mechanisms.

Since Thursday, the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate, a light crude that acts as a market benchmark, has fallen by more than ten dollars — taking it back to levels last seen in the global recession of 2008 2009.

The antidermatophyte assay, using Trichophyton rubrum as a model, showed that the crude extract acts on conidial and hyphal structures.

According to this study, deliberate self-harm without clear suicidal intention seems especially difficult for clinicians to detect using the crude "suicidal acts" classification.

For Levine, the question of whether the BP oil would act like the crude from the Amoco Cadiz or like that from the Braer was essential to the shape of the cleanup.