Sentence examples for to act seems from inspiring English sources

Whether his advocacy will persuade the G8 leaders to act seems a long way from the realities in Africa, but then Chris Martin of Coldplay sang, asking 'How long must we wait for this?' That is the real question.

In that way the motivation to act seems to be a key part of education that makes the development of learning and acquisition of competence possible.

The movie is so effective in depicting the inhumanity that it makes our failure to act seem baffling.

Brazil's decision to act seemed driven by the deteriorating public security situation in cities like São Paulo and, especially, Rio de Janeiro.

To be fair, how Mariah acts seems to depend on how Mr. McEachern is feeling.

To act now seems arbitrary; indeed, the time to draw a line has long since passed.

But the Bank of England's failure to act sooner seems to be part of a general reluctance to be seen to be saving speculators from their mistakes.

Something about his ability to inhabit two very different characters, while remaining very much himself — to act without seeming to act — bowled over the filmmakers.

Not being as respectable as our corporate counterparts, we are not permitted to act with seeming impunity.

To me, the Dream Act seems like a wonderful solution to a difficult problem, but it has yet to pass.

Hwu pointed out that a major rate-limiting step in ACT seems to be the inefficient T-cell migration to tumors.