Sentence examples for special act from inspiring English sources

By a special act of the state legislature he was buried in the building.

Indian burial sites are protected by a 1990 special act of Congress.

Pym therefore introduced a bill of attainder (i.e., a summary condemnation to death by special act of Parliament).

He believed, however, that each stage represented an independent fauna made by a special act of creation.

He was awarded Fifa's fair play award in 2001 in recognition of his "special act of good sportsmanship".

Mr. McKinney is seeking the full support of both towns to help pave the way for the special act.

Frequently, special acts must be performed by the sacrificer before and sometimes also after the sacrifice.

Admission for Saturday dancing is $6.25, for special acts up to $20. Absinthe Night Bar, 171 Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal; 31-200) 777-4870.

Less rigorous is "novelty creationism," which accepts the Darwinian account as adequate to explain some biological phenomena but requires special acts of divinity for others.

Seen in this light, Augustine's view hardly seems to reduce human cognition to special acts of divine revelation [see O'Daly 1987, pp. 206 7].

The biblical phrase "He who…" appears on many pages of the Origin, from the first to the last edition (Darwin 1859, 1860, 1872a), as if the author, a strict naturalist, would speak to a theologian who believes in special acts of independent creations (i.e., to Darwin himself when he was a young man, see Figs. 3 and 5).