Sentence examples for outright act from inspiring English sources
It would be impossible to receive a courtesy card without viewing it as an outright act of aggression.
Appearing at the press conference alongside McCarthy, Kelly and Staunton appears to have been Quinn's biggest mistake, as Keane saw it as an outright act of betrayal.
She will explain the small thing, come up with a cute phrase about it ("poor bustard") and suddenly leap to explain why the American incursion into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden managed not to be regarded as an outright act of war.
If the official attitude to people who sleep on the streets looks like cold contempt, we shouldn't be all that surprised if that is reflected not just in public indifference and hostility, but in outright acts of inhumanity.
For the media coverage of OWS demonstrations, this means portraying non-violent civil disobedience as if it were the same as outright acts of police violence.
According to Shteir, the first outright undressing act in the history of Western theatre was a Belle Époque French skit called "Le Coucher d'Yvette" ("Yvette's Bedtime"), in which a woman demurely stripped from her evening wear to her chemise and ultimately down to a prim nightgown, and climbed into bed — at which point the stage lights went out.
These certainly appear to be the words of someone who rejects the idea that what makes actions right is primarily their relationship to what good may come of those actions, someone who rejects outright the act consequentialist form of teleology.
They had been involved in racially charged, or outright racist, acts of violence.
Slink away, hide yourself, take a vow of silence, flee to a monastery, do penance for your many sins, crimes and outright immoral acts.
Labour and the Greens are pledged to abolish the Lobbying Act outright – Labour says it will replace the Act with a tougher statutory register of lobbyists.
If Congress does not repeal certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act outright, it may look to the SEC to revise those provisions, giving Clayton a say in how those rules are finalized.
