Synonym: follow up on, pursue. Similar words: actor, act out, facto, factor, factory, contractor, tone, sector. Meaning: v. 1. carry further or advance 2. regulate one's behavior in accordance with certain information, ideas, or advice.
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31. Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples.
32. Where there is no joint action, each member state is entirely free to act on its own.
33. Thus this second part is simply the tape that supposed to act on.
34. But the Senate is not likely to act on the bill this year, according to congressional aides.
35. The two parties may agree a price for the land or ask an agent to act on their behalf.
36. My act on the stage depended on the grade of gum I chewed.
37. We would all act on the assumption that others were acting in a similar manner.
38. They would have to act on their own initiative and consult with those ministers who were in London itself.
39. In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time.
40. Since the government can not submit every decision to popular referendum, elected or appointed individuals act on behalf of larger constituencies.
41. Secondly they act on E coli, bacteria responsible for the vast majority of urine infections.
42. So we will go on as long as there is a man who will act on a committee.
43. Which of these are deliberate displays is sometimes debatable, but horses certainly act on them.
44. He said he hadn't the strength to act on it, and yet he exhausted himself in making it roadworthy.
45. Again, I do not believe that enough of the electorate can be persuaded to act on these grounds alone.
46. They seem to act on the host's nervous system in rather the same way as an addictive drug.
47. I could simply elect to walk out the door[sentencedict.com], act on reckless impulse without fear of consequences.
48. So he adopted the simple expedient of not opening it until it was beyond his power to act on it.
49. The ancestors rarely act on their own initiative: generally these avenging angels of justice are invoked by the local elder.
50. It is vital that the United Nations should now act on that groundwork and drive the peacemaking process forward.
51. Therefore, before embarking on any research project we must make clear that we intend to act on the results.
52. To act on or defy a socially established rule has effects on all who benefit or suffer by its observance.
53. By law, the President of the United States must act on this recommendation by August 29, 2000.
54. Their finding suggests that pregnancy may confer on some women a protective factor making them less likely to act on suicidal urges.
55. It was their job to get results, but they left it to others to act on the research findings.
56. We can, however, make some attempt at understanding the cognisant act on the model of a physical act.
57. What is sadly lacking is the will to express such views and to act on them.
58. Forms provide the means to collect and act on data entered by the end user.
59. Firstly,(Sentencedict) traffic will be highly correlated if personal computers can all act on the same information at the same time.
60. The Hardwicke case also throws an interesting light on the likely future impact of the Act on crime.
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