Sentence examples for problematic act from inspiring English sources

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The composer's finale for the Giulietta Act, which Munich chose not to perform, is an exciting sequence that makes sense of the problematic act.

But Snowden has also identified the fastening of those programmes on the global population as a problematic act, which deserves a form of moral and ethical analysis that goes beyond mere raison d'état.

For speakers of stuttering varieties, introducing oneself to new people is an interactionally problematic act because of the popular belief amongst these speakers that one is prone to stutter on one's own name and thereby potentially positioned as incompetent interactants by supposedly 'fluent' speakers.

In fact, making a conditional threat is often a more troublesome and ethically problematic act than making a plain, unconditional threat.[20] Unfortunately, the ethical complexities involved in the making of conditional threats have been little explored to date by those more centrally interested in coercion.[21] (For criticism of and an alternative to Berman's approach, see Anderson 2011).

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Indeed, one of these sought-after DoJ memos was leaked last year and contained all the sorts of broad strokes references to "imminent threat" that have been used to justify a host of problematic acts, from torture, to indefinite detention, to scores of civilian deaths.

The Call has received mostly mixed reviews from critics, holding a 43% rating on film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 125 reviews with the consensus: "The Call builds plenty of suspense before taking a problematic turn in the third act".

Some critics have have suggested Keating's engagement with dancehall is problematic, an act of cultural appropriation from someone who isn't Jamaican-born.

Therefore they consider it problematic to act in a paternalistic fashion, although in certain situations it seems to be the only appropriate way.

Doesn't what you have said, I ask weakly, make any heterosexual act problematic?

This may look problematic, as the act exists to protect faiths such as the Roman Catholic church against prosecution for having a doctrinal issue with women priests.

Not only is the viewing of photos of oneself potentially problematic, but the act of getting those photos taken has an effect on us as well.

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