For Dr. Yamanaka, returning to Gladstone was, in some measure, an act of appreciation for its early support.
Ewing and his defenders always insisted that the guerrilla war had been uniquely cruel, and that General Order No. 11 had been a necessary measure – "an act of wisdom, courage, and humanity," in Schofield's words — to suppress the bushwhackers.
As for America's involvement in Cold War proxy wars in the Third World, he wrote, "it requires a measure of self-righteousness to see unilateral measures as an act of collective security".
Supporters of the proposition, the first of its kind in the nation, reject those arguments, casting the ballot measure as an act of kindness for animals whose bodies and byproducts usually end up on dining room tables.
"The measure is an act of historical justice," said Sebastian de la Obra, director of Casa de Sefarad, a Cordoba museum and cultural center devoted to Spanish Jewry in the south of the country.
Mr. Mugabe exulted in defying external pressures, appropriated antiterrorist language to justify violent repression of his opponents and pushed through parliament three extraordinary measures: a security act, an electoral code and, most recently, a media bill.
Entering the wilderness with insufficient information and meagre survival skills is by many measures a foolish act, and Penn's film never gets a grip on the essential riskiness in McCandless's behavior.
According to the House Report on this measure, an Adjustment Act increase would be inappropriate following the Comparability Act increase earlier in the same calendar year.
Opting out of these measures would constitute an act of political grandstanding that contradicts the Government's own policies to cut costs, support victims, bring offenders to justice and protect the British public from harm.
Even a White House spokesman weighed in, saying, "There is an extra measure of evil in an act of violence that cuts a young life short".
