Sentence examples for first acted on from inspiring English sources

The state constitution prohibits the houses from approving new spending until they have first acted on the governor's budget bills.

Born in West Dunbartonshire she was 10 when she first acted on radio, in the Scottish edition of Children's Hour, and the medium remained her favourite throughout her long screen and stage career.

He was born in Philadelphia to Eugenia Wermus and Baruch Lumet, distinguished Yiddish theatre actors, and was only a few years old when he first acted on stage and on the radio.

Now 35, she was 20 when she first acted on screen, playing a 14-year-old with Aids in Larry Clark's controversial 1995 film Kids – think Skins crossed with Rita, Sue and Bob Too!, but watched through a dirty car window.

Taken together, ESA may first acts on phosphatases to activate their enzymatic activity, resulting in dephosphorylation of RIP as well as AIF.

During a scene in the first act on Thursday, said James B. Freydberg, one of the show's producers, Mr. Williamson began coaching Mr. Handler and Jane Adams, who plays his girlfriend, while all three were on stage.

She doesn't wear makeup ("My own form of vanity"), but one of her first acts on winning the £15,000 prize money was to buy a cashmere cardigan.

When the invading British, as one of their first acts on our Country, cut them down, we wept and cried with the trees, sharing their pain and shielding them with our bodies.

After working for the Dorsey Orchestra from 1939 to 1942, Stafford began her solo career as one of the first acts on the new Capitol Records label.

The closest it gets to a relevant contemporary reference is to emphasise that one of Hadrian's first acts on becoming Emperor in 117AD was to withdraw Rome's army from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).

She was strong, beautiful but for one protruding eye, unsmiling, painfully untamed: virtually her first act on meeting the new teacher was to knock out one of her front teeth.