Sentence examples for serious act from inspiring English sources

"It was the first serious act of kindness I'd experienced in the United States".

"This is serious – act now to avoid further action," it said.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who is alleged to have committed a far more serious act, will suffer more than public embarrassment.

Whether or not it is equivalent to homicide, it is certainly a serious act of violence towards a human creature.

Ian McEwan's Saturday (Jonathan Cape) is a lovely and profoundly serious act of engagement with our age.

I know many people for whom visiting a concentration camp is a serious act or even a triumphant one.

THEIR APPROACHES Tilghman sounded serious, acted authoritatively and looked stern.

They must take into account the risk of serious acts of violence against civilians, particularly women and children.

The soldiers are traumatised by war and so commit serious acts and crimes," said Mokuta Amdondo, the North Kivu military prosecutor.

"How can we now accept Palestinians accused of serious acts of terrorism who would inevitably be free here since they haven't been tried or convicted?" he said.

He was charged with having "planned serious acts of violence as a member of a terrorist group with an Islamic fundamentalist background," the federal prosecutor said.