act on something造句

• Milhollin said, " unless you can act on something you find during monitoring with surprise inspections ."
• Palestinians who attack Israelis often act on something more visceral _ the impulse to inflict pain on an indomitable enemy.
• "No one has petitioned to change the names, which is the only way we can act on something, " said Tim Norton, board chairman.
• However, to act is to act on something particular _ and the persecution of Christians worldwide is massive, underreported, largely unknown and when known is often passed by in silence.
• Edna Johnson, a parent organizer for the community group ACORN, said it was about time someone superseded the school board because her group had also experienced firsthand how difficult it was to get it to act on something.
• Committees use the first 12 to 18 months of Congress to work over bills, hold hearings, see which compromises bring votes, negotiate with the White House, and then finally act on something complex in time to tell the voters they got something done.
• "Talk to the CEO of any company, " Bruno said . " If you want to act on something, and the company has 212 employees, what are you going to do, have a discussion and let 212 employees do whatever the agenda is?
• Norwich deplores large acts of barbarity or rapine ( the Fourth Crusade was " an obscenity " ), and sometimes of individual murder, but is forced _ if he is to avoid the sort of wholesale indictment of the Byzantine age and world that was common among Victorian historians _ at least to consider their acts on something of a comparative scale.