Sentence examples for to act seriously from inspiring English sources

The failure to act seriously undermines Britain's claim to be a world leader in tackling violence against women in developing nations, the Commons international development select committee said.

It was only after 1996 that the state began to act seriously against illegal construction, and it demolished houses and villas in natural parks in Sicily and Rome.

But it was not until her employer, Lutheran Social Services of Kansas and Oklahoma Inc., began a round of layoffs in 2000, that she began to act seriously on her dream to make her pottery a full-time business.

But the prepared text that he stuck to so closely defied any notion that he was prepared to act seriously on his rhetoric about both parties working together.

"If the international community does not act seriously and effectively to put an end to arbitrariness and the challenges of the Sharon government, the Middle East region as a whole will become an arena of instability and unrest whose dangerous results and consequences will tell on the whole world," he said.

If we do not act seriously, we don't get it, and the guy next to me will frown.

Companies that act seriously and aggressively now will gain market positioning and long-term benefits.

Those companies that act seriously and aggressively now will establish advantageous market positioning and be greatly rewarded over the long haul.

Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told reporters that Mr. Arafat's Palestinian Authority had "started really to act more seriously".

"The Syrian people have been killed for 4 years and nobody acted seriously to stop the killing".

It wasn't until they started doing this that quite a few large companies started taking supply chain issues seriously.' But the view that only a tiny proportion of businesses act responsibly was confirmed last week by research suggesting that just 3percentnt of the FTSE 350 companies have acted seriously on challenges such as climate change, waste and poverty.