Sentence examples for transform an act from inspiring English sources

In this way, the will-writing industry has managed to transform an act – making a will – which is meant to ease things for those you leave behind into an expensive future burden.

As Evan Wolfson, the civil rights lawyer who founded Freedom to Marry, says, "An act as unremarkable as getting a wedding license" has been transformed by the people embracing it, much as the unremarkable act of sitting at a Formica lunch counter was transformed by an act of civil disobedience at a Woolworth's in North Carolina 44 years ago this month.

"The social environment that transformed a private act of sexual intimacy into a grotesque voyeuristic spectacle must be unequivocally condemned in the strongest possible way," the judges wrote.

In retrospect I feel immense gratitude for her efforts, which transformed a benign act of love into a memorable and treasured event rather than one with potentially disastrous consequences for two teenagers in love.

It will not be transformed by an act of God, but by all of us, by you and me".

Jessie Lamb is a teenage girl in a Britain transformed by an act of biological terrorism, where women who become pregnant all die.

The confession is gorgeous for its admitted selfishness — which, in its candor and intimacy, is transformed into an act of generosity, a precious, unprettied gift.

"Providing medical care was transformed into an act of resistance, a crime, and medical structures became military targets," it said in a report this month.

One of a group of unique prints discovered in the New Zealand Film Archive three years ago, "The Sergeant" is (apart from being quite a deft piece of filmmaking) the earliest surviving narrative film shot in Yosemite, a natural wonder transformed, by an act of government, into a sort of museum of itself.

HONG KONG, China -- Boston seems so far away -- another world -- a city transformed by an act of sheer evil.

In an age in which the sexual behavior of the majority is like that of a mongrel dog, I transform a simple kiss into an act of eternal degradation".