537 Verbs to Use for the Word act

Germany has committed certain acts which are freely admitted by your Government.

Sir Edward Poynings, Governor of Ireland, induces the parliament of that country to pass the act bearing his name, which gives full power to all the laws of England. 1495.

The regular business of the monks is to perform acts of meritorious virtue, and to recite their Sûtras and sit wrapped in meditation.

NICHOLS-CAHILL ANNOTATED NEW YORK CIVIL PRACTICE ACTS, with forms of pleading and practice.

Like many other German writers, he saw no hostile act on the part of the civilian population, but they came to him as rumours.

It did not seem possible that any man of birth, breeding and social position could be so contemptible as to perpetrate an act of this character.

It is difficult to justify such an act as usurpation and military tyranny by the standard of an immutable morality.

I myself am far from asserting that in doing this he is carrying out any legal act of administration.

Did he not say, when asked what steps had been taken there in consequence of the resolution of the House in 1797, "that the act of the legislature, entitled an act for the encouragement, protection, and better government of slaves, appeared to him to have been considered, from the day it was passed until this hour, as a political measure to avert the interference of the mother country in the management of the slaves.

Curse on those dozen villains!" Cottle read two or three acts out to as, very gravely on both sides, till he came to this heroic touch,and then he asked what we laughed at?

Then the boy who had introduced it said to me: "I wonder, when you see it, whether you'll think Mr. Maeterlinck wrote 'The Land of Happiness' act, or not.

May 18President Wilson signs selective service act.

Germany has defended the many acts which have brought down upon her the contempt and opprobrium of the entire civilised world.

In this distress, my lords, they can only do what indeed they now seem to design; they can only repeal this act by charging the debt, which it has enabled them to contract, upon the sinking fund, upon that sacred deposit which was for a time supposed unalienable, and from which arose all the hopes that were sometimes formed by the nation, of being delivered from that load of imposts, which it cannot much longer support.

Others have exalted the military and the idea of war; and while boarding in the home of a German army officer I witnessed heartless and cruel acts which I do not believe could have occurred in any other civilised country among people of the same education and intelligence.

This makes artificially a complete act of respiration.

I have also been writing parts of my 'Hyperion,' and completed four acts of a tragedy.

The lieutenant says: "I gathered the impression that it was impossible for the officers at Nomeny to prevent such acts.

Congress derives its power to suppress this actual insurrection, from the same source whence it derived its power to suppress the same acts in the case supposed.

In 834, two assemblies, one meeting at St. Denis and the other at Thionville, annulled all the acts of the assembly of Compiègne, and for the third time put Louis in possession of the imperial title and power.

Suppose the blacks in the District should seize the whites, drive them into the fields and kitchens, force them to work without pay, flog them, imprison them, and sell them at their pleasure, where would Congress find power to restrain such acts?

I am astonished that my mother should take such a steppurely to exercise an unreasonable act of authority; and to oblige the most remorseless hearts in the world.

There might not have been the usual discrimination and temporal usefulness in this instance which generally accompanied her benevolent acts; but it was associated with the image of her husband, and it could excite no surprise in Mrs. Wilson, although it did in Marian, to see her sister driving two or three times a week to relieve the necessities of a man who appeared actually to be in want of nothing.

I could not dwell upon her misery, or upon the revulsion of feeling which follows such impetuous acts.

Frank Jewett Mather, the well-known American art critic, bitterly denounced the act as one of wanton destruction, saying that Louvain "contained more beautiful works of art than the Prussian nation has produced in its entire history.

537 Verbs to Use for the Word  act