Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
A siege is an act of war.
The simple act of caring is heroic.
Excellence is not a single act. You are what you repeatedly do.
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Missile strikes - or any other such action - against a sovereign nation is an act of war.
Our projects are transparent and speedy. We act what we say.
It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
Under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, it is an offence to stir up hatred towards religious and racial groups. 'Stirring up hatred' is an expression both loaded and undefined. Do I stir up hatred towards a religious group by criticising its beliefs in outspoken terms?
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.
And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.
