Sentence examples for essential act from inspiring English sources

This kind of protest song, like Anohni's, is an essential act.

I assure them very firmly that the action that I am taking is an essential act of leadership.

Some Jewish activists see the trial, which is likely to last a day, as an essential act of recognition of a murderous career.

But buying the P.C.N. & R., as the newspaper is known, was more than an anthropological exercise; it was an essential act of local citizenship.

They had four fielding errors and two runners became too distracted to touch home plate, the essential act in this sport.

And yet voting, the essential act, has to be supported by speaking, and by telling the truth about how we got here.

"The details are deliberately quite primitive," says project architect John O'Mara, describing how the material junctions of brick, concrete and oak are simply expressed as "essential acts of assembly", in line with the building's archaic, primal form.

But one of her most essential acts of lawyering came when she patted Mr. Loughner on the back in court last month, leaned in close and whispered in his ear.

When did the livelihoods of more than 400 traders not become essential?" Acting director of city development Martin Farrington said that there needed to be a healthy debate about how the council uses the profits from the market - but warned there were consequences for the council's budget in difficult financial times.

In his February budget, the finance minister, Yashwant Sinha, proposed cutting the number of goods covered by the Essential Commodities Act, which restricts trade in food, and shifting responsibility for buying food for the poor from the FCI to state governments.

Or, maybe, they represent tiny crumbs of dark chocolate, maybe the dust from Oreo cookies, and they are recreating the essential American act of biscuit dunking.