Sentence examples for definitive act from inspiring English sources

It's just not, ultimately, a substitute for a definitive act like an authorization vote.

For Lewis, performance even unto complicity with the ultimate evil is the definitive act of solidarity; for Lanzmann, the bearing of witness even unto the evocation of the agents of ultimate evil is the definitive act of solidarity.

For Lewis, performance — even unto complicity with the ultimate evil — is the definitive act of solidarity; for Lanzmann, the bearing of witness — even unto the evocation of the agents of ultimate evil — is the definitive act of solidarity.

The poll tax was the definitive act of hubris that brought about her downfall; the final act, with the isolated tyrant betrayed by her defecting generals, was quite Shakespearean.

If actors and directors are to be of any merit at all, the definitive act of filmmaking must take place not in the writing room or the boardroom but on the set.

But from the moment she came on-screen in this film to her definitive act with a bow near its end, she felt a little off somehow.

The opera was to go through several revisions and restructures before reaching the definitive three-act form that in due course established Smetana's international reputation.

The new ownership of the Dallas Mavericks set a new low by renting the definitive tired old act, Dennis Rodman, for the rest of the season.

Neither study provided a definitive answer about ACT safety at high frequencies.

There is no definitive list of acts proscribed by the R18 classification.

As Orwell taught, it isn't the labels – Christianity, socialism, Islam, democracy, two legs bad, four legs good, the works – that are definitive, but the acts done in their names.