Sentence examples for had acted as one from inspiring English sources

To the U.S. government, Mermelstein was an international cocaine distributor responsible for importing $360 million worth of the drug into Florida and Los Angeles, a man who knew book and chapter on at least five bloody killings, a man who, for seven years, had acted as one of the primary operations chiefs in the United States for Colombia's largest cocaine cartel.

In particular, they argue, the killing of innocent civilians in drone airstrikes has acted as one of the most "devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world".

The district attorney, Tom Young, argued that Burns had acted as "a one-man lynch mob" and charged him with first-degree murder.

It's as if one word had acted as an aural shortcut into Tennyson's whole imagination.

12 individual interviews were conducted 6 with mediators and 6 with users, one of whom had acted as a translating minor.

However, one interviewee, who had acted as an interpreter for others, offered a valuable insight into the dilemma that interpreters, particularly professional interpreters, face in that they are trained to act as literal conduits for information rather than acting as a patient advocate.

Since then, he has acted as a one-man committee to bring together big-name legal authorities and big-name laymen to spend 4 days examining American law as a 200-year-old institution.

He has acted as if no one else ever had, but he should ask Aaron to see some of his.

In the above discussion of sys-net derivation all the entry points have been simple: in each case the choice of just one option at any one time has acted as the entry point to the next system.

A British plan in 2002 to compensate farmers for eradication is widely seen to have acted as a "perverse incentive" to grow, as one official put it.

This 'jury' that convicted him today has acted as a result of a one-sided process".