Filled with guilt and shame — for this act as well as for his difficult relationship with his wife, who died in a train crash, and with his elderly mother, whom he visits too infrequently — Pavel feels closest to an older friend, Semyon, an outspoken academic, and Natalya, his building's manager, who has lost her family in tragic circumstances.
When Congress passed the District of Columbia Act emancipating slaves in Washington in April 1862, it also appropriated $100,000 to resettle "such free persons of African descent now residing in said District, including those liberated by this act, as may desire to emigrate".
Humans need this act as much as plants and animals do.
Respondents were asked about their views towards this act as well after having the act described to them.
"I hope that he recognizes this act as the lowest form of criminality.
David's 1781 painting The Death of Socrates clearly sees this act as heroic.
In this act, as in whole stretches of the opera, there are few stand-alone arias.
"This clearly distinguishes his service and this act as deserving of the Congressional Medal of Honor".
Tremain's narrator uses this Act as a metaphor when reflecting on his reunion with a favourite mistress.
And many of my compatriots have, out of sheer melancholy, successfully executed this act as a train arrived.
Ever since the war, the appearance of the city has changed, but buildings like this act as an unconscious reminder of the state of society beneath.
