Sentence examples for preceding act of from inspiring English sources

Among the theoretical models developed to describe the nature of social behaviour, the stimulus response model (in which every social act is seen as a response to the preceding act of another individual) has been generally found helpful but incomplete.

Our painful history -- both centuries ago and very recently -- shows that the use of the "N" word often preceded acts of violence.

This means that for each act A, we tested whether the preceding act X influenced the chance of transitions to the following act Y [ 15].

They also used comic episodes to lighten prevailingly tragic stories (as did the Venetians) and introduced instrumental overtures and overture-like pieces preceding acts or sections of acts.

Threats often precede acts, which is why the targets of online rape and death threats take them seriously, even though the sites that allow them and the law enforcement officials that generally ignore them apparently do not.

Long preparation, therefore, preceded her act of defiance.Yet life in the South became too hard for her after the boycott.

The phrase "pardon me" frequently functions as an apology, which might precede an act of forgiveness, or be a plea or request for forgiveness, or some similar act of forbearance.

This is not a surprising finding as the two items are connected when there is active planning of a suicide attempt, in that experiencing suicidal ideation commonly precedes the act of suicide.

The new variant of the process allows the decision to proceed to either to proliferation or to apoptosis (or to quiescence) to precede the act of division or apoptosis initiation.

He also teaches that God gives us two different kinds of power, both the power simultaneous with the act (which is simply to do the act) and the power preceding the act (to choose either the act or its opposite).

As you watch him building up -- calmly, patiently, almost stealthily -- to a big comic effect, you're sometimes reminded of the ominous stillness that would precede his acts of violence in films like "Godfather II," "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull".