Sentence examples for distinct act from inspiring English sources

Again, a judgment, for Wodeham, is sharply distinguished from the distinct act of apprehension or the mental proposition.

Buying nails is a distinct act from building the birdhouse that must be done on the way to building the birdhouse.

This is a distinct act, which can also be characterized as "trying"—once one decides to do something, one also tries to do it.

It takes a distinct act of reflection in order to provide the sort of self-reference necessary for making moral judgments about one's own actions (Thiel 1991 92 24).

Here in Britain, arrest and charge are two distinct acts.

Thus he has three distinct acts to tell a story and drive home a message.

It rose from nine full-length autobiographical plays re-imagined as distinct acts in three new plays.

In three distinct acts, the film traces Chiron's coming of age, in Miami, as he's forced to ask himself that same question.

In three distinct acts, Mr. Reich and Ms. Korot present interviews with, first, Jews; then Palestinian Muslims; and then diverse Americans, who speak of what the Abraham story means to them today.

Let's stop diverting the argument by making comparisons between the clearly distinct acts of assisted dying and assisted suicide, and move on to a sensible discussion about end-of-life choice.

Admission to the sangha involves two distinct acts: pabbajja (lower ordination), which consists of renunciation of secular life and acceptance of monastic life as a novice, and upasampada (higher ordination), official consecration as a monk.