Sentence examples for understood as an act from inspiring English sources

In part, the Moscow loan can be understood as an act of minor and demonstrative revenge.

Ms Stuart's book is better understood as an act of documentation and witness.

Globally, it was understood as an act of solidarity with all those fighting for greater equality, justice and human rights.

He said an attack on Iraq "would be less easily understood as an act of defense and could destroy the international alliance against terror".

In 1990, when Israel proposed to dam rivers in Ethiopia, Egypt replied that such dams "would be understood as an act of war".

Many experts now believe that rape is best understood as an act of unwanted bodily invasion that need not involve force.

For him, grasping the significance of any cultural fact had to be understood as a mental act of "transposition".

Moreover, Duyvendak and Scholten assert that this retrospective labeling of policies as 'multiculturalist' – both by certain politicians and certain scholars – has to be understood as a 'performative act' that served a political agenda (Duyvendak & Scholten, 2011, p. 331).

These transfers "are to be understood as a communicative act, i.e. a mode of expression of emigrants through which they formulate what they think they have to do in accordance with who they think they are" (Lacroix, 2010).

The development of Family Rooms by the health service in this study can be understood as a pioneering act of translation of mental health policy and a move towards family-focused mental health practice.

Quality of life assessment should be understood as an engagement to act.