Sentence examples for table and acts from inspiring English sources

"If the U.S. walks away from the table and acts unilaterally, there's a very good risk that the U.S. won't walk back, and that's a big challenge to the Security Council," a European diplomat said.

Somehow sports has become like the overweight uncle who now takes up three spaces at the family Thanksgiving table and acts as if he is more important than everyone else.

Each new structure is assigned a 'UCI', which is stored in the UCI field of the UC_STRUCTURES table and acts as the primary key for this table.

Her daughter poured the colorful rubber bands onto the table and acted as if she wasn't listening.

A doll, for instance, is not a puppet, and a girl playing with her doll as if it were a living baby is not giving a puppet show; but, if before an audience of her mother and father she makes the doll walk along the top of a table and act the part of a baby, she is then presenting a primitive puppet show.

After college, Ms. Falco waited tables and acted in low-budget movies, working with former classmates Hal Hartley and Nick Gomez, who were directing their first independent films.

Fossil dates correspond to those listed in Table 5 and act as constraints on the minimum divergence time for the node in question.

Before the world leaders, Mr. Obama took pains to defend his threat of military action against Syria for the use of chemical weapons as crucial to getting a Russian-brokered deal on the table and the Security Council to act.

For eight years, progressives were unable to bring their agenda to the table and had to constantly act on the defensive.

I will put this on the table and say, 'Now you must act.' And they will act.

The table effectively acts as a car and rams into the woman.