Sentence examples for effective acts from inspiring English sources

And Miliband's most effective acts, such as refusing to back military action over Syria, are acts that would have been anathema to Blair.

During those life crises in which most people become paralyzed by conscience or deterred by the fear of detection, he is impelled to quick, ruthless and effective acts of self-preservation -- usually involving murder.

Between the two came the shooting of Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to Britain, which, because of the events that followed in its wake, could also be considered one of the most effective acts of terror ever committed.

We have worked with UK Uncut to carry out audacious and effective acts of direct action and civil disobedience, shutting down Oxford Circus in opposition to the welfare reform bill.

Even that did not permanently fix the text, and from then on the history of the epics was one of periodical distortion followed by progressively more effective acts of stabilization.

After all, the most effective acts of censorship must be those that remain hidden.

An exceptionally effective act of literary ventriloquism and entirely irresistible.

It represents instead America's most intelligent (and possibly most effective) act of aggression toward Iran.

It's possible to question the logic of that last sentence – but there's no doubting that Innes's debut novel, Fishnet, is an effective act of empathy.

"I believe the single most effective act the GMC could do now to promote patient safety would be to lobby Jeremy Hunt to get back round the table and talk.

His single effective act is as meaningless as it is cruel: when he finds an effeminate young soldier serving at his weekend retreat, Pinochet orders that the man be humiliated and expelled from the army.