Sentence examples for to act previously from inspiring English sources

Loomis asks himself, "If this happened, if he couldn't even keep his son around and reasonably satisfied to be with him for a weekend, what was he at all anymore?" The realization spurs Loomis to act — previously he had drunk his way through most of the visit — but it's no guarantee of meaningful change.

She resented Darcy for the way he had acted previously, and his arrogance still smarted.

It has a memorable performance from a man who has never acted previously: Lin Ching-tas as Mouna Rudo, the tribal leader who leads the rebellion.

In the infamous torture memos of 2002, Yoo and Bybee, authorised "enhanced interrogation" techniques (EITs), acts previously recognised by the US as torture – and the same torture methods used on US soldiers to obtain false confessions during the Korean war.

Though Madhu had acted previously in several films, including Ramu Kariat's National Award winning film, Chemmeen (1965), Swayamvaram marked a turning point in his career.

How can we characterize which failures to act on a previously formed intention count as weakness of will?

Of course not all cases of abandoning or failing to act on a previously formed intention count as weakness of will.

If an agent fails to act on a previously formed resolution to do a at t, thus exhibiting weakness of will, we can distinguish the case in which he still endorses at t the judgment that it is best that he do a at t (even though he does not do it) from the case in which he abandons that judgment as well as his resolution.

Using a cell aggregation assay, based on Drosophila S2 cells co-transfected with Fj, Ds, or Ft, Brittle et al. (2010) deduced that Fj was able to act on three previously identified serines in Ds to inhibit the binding of Ds to Ft (Ishikawa et al., 2008; Brittle et al., 2010).

The region upstream of the PR1 promoter, W-box sequences, was shown previously to act as a negative cis-acting element in the expression of defence related genes [ 59].

Artificial structures that aggregate fish (fish aggregation devices; FADs) have been previously suggested to act as ecological traps by acting as a super-stimulus and misleading fish to make inappropriate habitat selections [3].