Sentence examples for string of acts from inspiring English sources

The major innovation of nouveau cirque was that the show was no longer a string of acts but a unified whole.

A string of acts from all eras have retaken to the stage, from Led Zeppelin and the Police to the Spice Girls and one last hurrah for little-remembered Britpop bands.

Yesterday, an Islamist terrorist sect, Boko Haram, set fire to a police station in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the latest in a long string of acts (including assassinations and a mass prison break last month) that are attributed to the group.

Local and federal authorities are investigating a string of acts of violence against Jehovah's Witness houses of worship in Washington state ― including multiple suspected arsons.

Having worked as journeyman classical composer for many years, Garson first found commercial success writing pop songs for a string of acts based on the East Coast in the early 1960s.

"Mr Tambourine Man" was the last semi-bitter time Dylan would see another artist, in this case the Byrds, as the latest of a string of acts who seemed to have smash hit after hit with his tunes while he couldn't make a dent in the Top 10.

If true, it is yet another in a long string of shameful acts by the international community in the Balkans.

The authorities arrested a prominent and outspoken opposition figure, the latest in a string of repressive acts, according to Human Rights Watch and Ferghana.ru, a Moscow-based news Web site.

Last year's presumed attack on the South Korean naval vessel, the Cheonan, in March, killing 46 sailors and the artillery barrage on civilians living on the island of Yeonpyeong in November were only the latest in a string of lawless acts of aggression.So it must be debatable whether there is any point in "engaging" the North Korean government.

While he has taken a tougher line than his predecessors toward the government in Pyongyang, he has also stopped short of military action in response to a string of belligerent acts, including the torpedoing of a Navy ship and the shelling of a South Korean island.

Friday's arrest brings to a close a long search for suspects behind the 1995 subway attack and a string of other acts of violence by the doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, that terrified a public unaccustomed to violent crime or terrorism.