Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, "to kill oneself") is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
The act of emigration causes radical disturbance, and nowhere does Donoghue get this fact across better than in "Counting the Days," a tale inspired by 13 letters between one Henry Johnson, who left Belfast for Quebec in 1848, and his wife, Jane, who sailed with their children to join him a year later.
Rather, the theory of quantum mechanics states that all possibilities exist simultaneously, and the act of looking causes the possibilities to collapse into a single reality.
Workers tended to beaver away for the first few days of the working week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.Another of the original observations was that output fell when the trials ceased, suggesting that the act of experimentation caused increased productivity.
The act of imagining causes brain events, and so can serve as a voluntary, if indirect means to change the course of the animal spirits and eliminate the causes of some undesirable passion.
Perhaps the act of noble cause corruption while wrong in itself, nevertheless, was morally justified from an all things considered standpoint.
In traditional interpretations of quantum mechanics, it is the act of observation that causes this wave function to "collapse," forcing the particle to choose one state or another.
The act of petty retribution caused traffic misery in a town with a Democratic mayor, who had refused to endorse Christie's bid for re-election.
Eternal truths and immutable essences are necessary only in that they presuppose and are consequent to the act of God who caused them.
