Sentence examples for prompt to act from inspiring English sources

Noguès was prompt to act on that report and ordered his own subordinate commanders to cease active resistance, pending an armistice that would be arranged the following morning.

Quick to grasp the significance of every situation, he was equally prompt to act, and victory was invariably the reward of his bold swiftness.

To strengthen the content at shows like these Twitter has also created a third unique offering called Twitter Challenger which presents celebrities with a prompt to act upon and express themselves with, whether that's doing a dance or answering a question.

However, a Depression score above the higher cut-off point is a "prompt to act" [ 50], i.e. to diagnose a depressive disorder without delay.

The unnamed French official was prompted to act after his own passport photo broke the stringent rules.

The people who occupied the power station's chimney in November last year were prompted to act by the highest motives.

Lawmakers were prompted to act after the Supreme Court in 2007 ruled that producers had far more leeway to dictate retail prices.

But, in the end, the European Union was prompted to act by the spread of anxiety throughout financial markets if Greece's problems were not resolved.

Rodrigues welcomed the arrests, but claimed the authorities had only been prompted to act by the international outrage at Cecil's killing.

Countries or communities generally have to perceive some definable threat on a clear timetable to be prompted to act to repel the threat or at least to invest in an insurance policy.

Martel was prompted to act as a literary godfather when Harper cited The Guinness Book of Records as his favourite book, and by his failure to recognise the importance of the arts generally.