Sentence examples for to act better from inspiring English sources

Our third-order method with energy conservation is experimentally seen to act better than a fourth-order-accurate method.

But not only is elevation characterized by a distinct physiological response, Haidt has found that it actually makes people want to act better themselves.

This is excellent news, for the flooded city has a genuinely haunted air, like an urban mangrove swamp, and also because Johnson, in a revelatory scene, turns out to act better when he's underwater.

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires — committed to looting and conquest — have done.

Earlier this week, Jamie Foxx – who won an Oscar for Ray, in 2005 – told Will Smith he needed to "act better" to stand a chance (he then took the mickey out of his Nigerian accent in Concussion).

She went on, "I moved here from Toronto at eighteen to act better and more, but I looked like I was twelve, so I smoked to seem sophisticated and it lowered my voice to a mezzo".

When they receive praise, it's more often a result of a conscious decision to act better--that is, what they do.

Mrs Nelson scoffs at the notion that in order to make children act better they must be made to feel worse.

Though my sons are little, I am already teaching them that they have to look and act better than other kids so that they won't be pre-judged.

Besides, Pat Cotillo said with a smile, "The kids that come in here, I have to say they probably act better than we did".

Basically: Everybody can act better.