Sentence examples for practical acts from inspiring English sources

This means giving expression to their beliefs in the written and spoken word, and in practical acts of service to the local community and to the nation.

Other, more practical acts of typing nonconformity followed: Occupy Wall Street protestors in Portland, Oregon, conducted type-ins once their power had been cut off by the local authorities.

More likely this was a purely practical act on his part, but I mistook it for something more symbolic than that).

I, for one, hereby volunteer to help drape tarps over the ice cliffs of Kilimanjaro, as a symbolic (and practical) act toward saving the planet.

The distribution of the draft to all 193 member states is the first practical act in an effort likely to set the Palestinians on a collision course with Israel.

One pharmacist wrote that the practical act of taking the time and measuring patients' blood pressure would reinforce the skills they had gained in the training, in addition to having feedback on the process: " actually taking BP measurements and feedback from GPs".

The engineer is the man or woman of the future, the one who, impatient of palaver, armed with practical knowledge, acts and acts decisively to change the landscape.

Couldn't, for all practical purposes, act.

A previously reported study by me (Tayton 2007b) confirmed the presence of the epiphyseal tubercle as a significant feature of the human capital growth plate complex, and a major obstacle to any slippage occurring as a result of shear forces (which for practical purposes act in a single plane).

Make a timetable which is practical and act on it.

Mr. Veltman's analysis also has a practical element: the Payback Act, Equality Act and the Pharmacy Act will each earn you 20 Scrabble points.