Faking is a social activity in which people act together to draw a veil over unwanted realities and encourage each other in the exercise of their illusory powers.
We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
I do get star-struck, especially if they're icons like Florence Welch. I met her briefly at a studio and I did not act cool.
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.
In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damaging to their own interests and those of their customers. But they are not, and so they won't.
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.
In 1976 the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed, sending the EPA on a 30-year-plus odyssey chasing down the chemical industry in a fruitless quest for responsibility.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.
I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.
In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
