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It was a modest but effective act of liberation, and no words were needed to get the point across.

Plenty of time for Labour to get an effective act together, more than it yet realises.

Later he called the explosion "a very effective act of sabotage."

The motors' last effective act was to slow the Stone down for insertion into the present orbit.

"That was an effective act with Beck."

This last Mr. Bell regards as his most effective act as Secretary.

Her flamboyance, Miles increasingly felt, was an effective act, meant to be viewed at a distance like stage makeup, to dazzle her troops.

"It is neither possible nor desirable to enumerate all the many effective acts of destruction that have been carried out," General Eisenhower said.

Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described.

From 1948-1960 the Malayan Communists committed numerous effective acts of sabotage against the Malaysian Government, first targeting railway bridges, then hitting larger targets such as military camps.

The bulldozers have already been parked on the construction site,but work is delayed over and over again because of bizarre but effective acts of vandalism that occur in the night.

His last effective act was to proclaim his thirteen-year-old grandson, Lij Yasu, as his heir, with Ras Tasamma as Regent.

By now Albert was on board and hauling up fishing lines from a cursingAuguste,who was putting on a noisy and effective act of being afraid ofbeing caught on the hooks.

There is great advantage in setting up establishments in various parts of the Island for acquisitions [of territory] will only go unchallenged where there is effective act of possession."

Comments Draw Ovation He concluded the passage by counseling abortion opponents to "accompany their teaching about the value of every human life with concrete and effective acts of solidarity to people in difficult situations.

During those life crises in which most people become paralyzed by conscience or deterred by the fear of detection, he is impelled to quick, ruthless and effective acts of self-preservation - usually involving murder.

Between the two came the shooting of Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to Britain, which, because of the events that followed in its wake, could also be considered one of the most effective acts of terror ever committed.

But Assisi's frescoes of the saint's life, painted by Cimabue and disciples of Giotto (which barely survived the severe earthquake of 1997), proved an immensely effective act of artistic propaganda against the prevalent libertinism and heresy.

Some point to an act by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who knelt at a monument to the Jewish victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, in 1970, as an example of a powerful and effective act of apology and reconciliation similar to dogeza, although not everyone agrees.