These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
As well-intentioned as it might be, the Ali Act suffers from glaring flaws.
I presented a bill that will address a glaring loophole that allows gun buyers to bypass a background check by purchasing guns as kits. These kits allow anyone to purchase a totally untraceable firearm. The act simply says these weapons should be regulated like other firearms and require background checks.
Think globally, act locally.
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act.
Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.
The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.
Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.
As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
