• Last but not least, the new Mayor said that he would also be acting on a suggestion by Cllr. Browning.
• We really do welcome your suggestions and try to act on them when possible.
• This was because his role in that came to light too late for the Hutton inquiry to act on it.

Synonyms

• His espousal of State action, representing the best collective nature of the whole community, was to act for the benefit of all.
• Napoleon recognized his abilities, promoting him to positions where he could act for the benefit of French science and education.
• I have more faith in the ability of the general public to act for the greater good in the face of a crisis.

• According to the new regulations, a representative who acts on behalf of visa-seekers must be authorised and could be an immigration consultant with good standing in the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants.
• It is about time the party stopped its pretence of acting on behalf of all the people when the only people it represents are the well off, big business and the privileged.
• The first stages of a High Court hearing will be heard later this month involving a Dublin law firm acting on behalf of up to 12 individual clients.

Synonyms

• That said at the bottom of everything, unless the truth is told, people, no matter how well motivated, have no motivation to act from.
• There's a difference between thinking someone's strategies are wrong, and thinking them a knave who acts from ignorance at best, and more likely acts from malice.
• Whether you agree or disagree with his policies, you cannot doubt that he acts from deep convictions, and that he is prepared to take courageous decisions that fly in the face of public opinion.

• She'd planned to act dumb and pretend she'd never known he was there.
• So the suspicion remains that his main desire is merely to appear to be acting tough - whether or not what he suggests will make any difference.
• He acted shocked then pretended to weep.

Synonyms

• The premise: during the tail end of a sleep-over, a half-dozen of his child-centered stories are acted out by a quartet of overly wound-up kids stubbornly avoiding sleep.
• He proceeds to dazzle them with a story, acting it out with the help of his dog.
• We played outside, made up stories, acted them out, etc.

• If we can stay with it, neither acting it out nor repressing it, it wakes us up.
• Like so many traumatized children, they were acting it out again and again, Elliott explains, until they could see it in a way that made sense to them.

• In the end, I decided to join in with everyone else and dance - it's hard to keep up the sulky act ALL night.
• The kitchen where Willie did his Jamie Oliver act makes the one he'll have to share at college look in need of a visit from environmental health.
• I've brought home a stack of proofs to read this weekend, so started on them on the train home, but did my worryingly regular falling asleep act not long outside London.

• Third, the fact that the act or document is uncommercial, or even artificial, does not mean that it is a sham.
• In my judgment, the law does not require that in every situation every party to the act or document should be a party to the sham.

• The performances included 5 separate acts by Madame Jim, with full costume changes, which earned mountains of applause.
• The comic had risen through the standup ranks, working hard at developing an act after his initial performances drew derision.
• After I'd done my comedy act during the late seventies, I started writing a screenplay for a movie.

Synonyms

• There will be over thirty DJs and live dance acts performing on the day.
• Both acts performed on the Sunday of the event, Razorlight entertaining on the main stage whilst Babyshambles took to the NME / Radio 1 Stage.
• Bringing pop acts to perform with an orchestra is a good idea, but too often the symphony takes a back seat to the star.