Sentence examples for friendly act from inspiring English sources

McNally called the move a "not a particularly friendly act".

Mr. Xie said this had happened only once, as a friendly act to help a fellow manufacturer.

"If Australia was itself subjected to such an activity do you consider it as being a friendly act or not?

"If you see a person heading toward a huge hole in the ground, is it not a friendly act to warn him?" she wrote.

"I can understand people signing it and not being aware of the subtext, and I do not consider Peter Tatchell or Professor Beard transphobic, but signing that letter was not a friendly act towards trans people".

Kate Connolly, our correspondent in Germany, says that Jean-Claude Trichet and Dominque Strauss-Kahn will put German politicians under pressure to agree the bailout by insisting that the rescue package is "a necessity" rather than just a friendly act.

The inaugural season lineup of visiting performers ranges from the Glenn Miller Orchestra (Nov. 7) to family friendly acts like the Peking Acrobats (Feb. 13); the Madison Symphony is performing Beethoven's Ninth this weekend, and the CTM Madison Family Theater company is performing "Charlotte's Web" this month.

The only alternative is to split her moral reasons and her motives for friendly acts, thereby becoming schizophrenic.

Cocking & Kennett (2000) argue against this view that friendly acts per se are morally good, claiming that "I might be a perfectly good friend.

Thus, although act consequentialists those who justify each particular act by appeal to the goodness of the consequences of that act, impersonally conceived (see the entry on consequentialism)—could justify friendly acts, they "cannot embody their reason in their motive" (1976, 70), for to be motivated teleologically by the concern to maximize goodness is not to be motivated out of friendship.

There seem at first no pitfalls to this guy-friendly act.