Sentence examples for of being acted from inspiring English sources

Mr Romney wants all his proposals to be "actionable", says Lanhee Chen, his campaign policy director (meaning, in this case, "capable of being acted on").

It's not a style that grabs at life but that moves into it, that passes through it with a quietly adamant determination to keep going but without any illusions about taking action, which she knows is as much a matter of being acted upon.

By contrast, the feeling of dependence corresponds to Receptivity and is the feeling of being acted upon by things in the world (say, being affected by the food one eats or helped by fellow human beings).

Thus in the Specimen, he tells us that "primitive [active] force (which is nothing but the first entelechy) corresponds to the soul or substantial form [of the scholastics]" while "the primitive force of being acted upon or of resisting constitutes that which is called primary matter in the schools" (GM VI.236 237/AG 119–120).

All of these were acted upon and put into place.

"But these acts of persecution are acts of fear -- and therefore of weakness".

The most injurious manifestations of hatemongering are acts of rage.

The right definition of terrorism is "acts of war by nongovernmental organizations".

Some of them were acts of great beauty and impudence, some the merest tap-ins.

But the the most mystifying aspect of this is act of repetition is what's next?

The attacks, he said, were more than acts of terror; they were acts of war.