Sentence examples for major act was from inspiring English sources

Bremer's first major act was not auspicious.

The son's first major act was to push through the biggest tax cuts in US history.

Appropriately, Gandhi's last major act was a hunger strike protesting the Indian government's attempt to deny Pakistan its due share of resources.

Fresh off a 2003 re-election mandate, one of Daley's first major acts was ordering the demolition of Meigs Field.

In 2000, Larry Echo Hawk, a Pawnee who had been the Attorney General of Idaho and was later the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, noted that: "The Major Crimes Act was designed to give the federal government authority to criminally prosecute seven specific major crimes committed by Indians in Indian Country.

His first major political act was to double-cross the fake reformers close to the Kremlin by making a deal with the Communist Party.

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, January 25 , 1964P. 58 Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's opening major policy act was to give an enthusiastic blessing to the findings of Lord Robbins and his committee regarding higher education.

The last major violent act was the brutal murder of six leading Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, a few days after the Berlin Wall fell.

In a unanimous decision issued at the end of May 1886, authored by Justice Samuel Freeman Miller, the Supreme Court ruled that the Major Crimes Act was constitutional, and, therefore, the case was within the jurisdiction of the federal courts.

On the day of June 24 , 1885 only weeks after the Major Crimes Act was passed, Kagama and his son Mahawaha went to Iyouse's house; where an argument ensued which resulted in the stabbing and death of Iyouse.

The Arizona State University law journal has stated that the decision was incorrect, that the Major Crimes Act is in fact unconstitutional.