"act" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A common objection to the investigation into the clandestine organization "Ergenekon" is that the group does not have the wherewithal to carry out large-scale militant acts.
- The most prominent Palestinian militant acts and operations committed against Israeli targets during 1999 include:
- The marriage was not recorded in order to prevent a subsequent nullification, and Vila described it as a "militant act": "There are times when it is necessary to act outside the law.
- The local Kulaks were more militant and committed violent acts against Soviet officials.
- Kenney was involved in other militant acts and underwent force-feeding many times, but was always determined to confront the authorities and highlight the injustice of the Cat and Mouse Act.
- "If you address real problems, people will buy into your organization whether they like you or not" is how he explains the resurgence of interest in the N.A.A.C.P. in his town, where the mere fact of membership was once a militant act.
- Some believe that her letter opposing women's suffrage publicly in 1913 was actually just an opposition to the actions of the Women's Social and Political Union in England whose militant acts including burning churches, bombing homes, and sending letter bombs.
- The next justification is that Israel faces a unique threat of terrorism, and therefore cannot be gentle with a detainee who may know of a "ticking bomb," Israeli shorthand for a violent militant act about to be committed.
- In Geneva today, though, Israeli officials provided an example of a militant act prevented through the use of information obtained under coercion from a Palestinian detainee.
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