"To commit the act" means to actually do or perform a particular action, usually referring to something that is against the law or morally wrong.
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While a person
who commits an act of violence may be acting with aggression, a person with an aggressive nature will not necessarily engage in violent acts.
While auto insurance fraud is nothing new, the rise of the number of
people committing these acts is attributed to the troubled economy brought about by the recent recession.
People sometimes
commit acts like these in order to get out of damaged vehicles they can't afford to fix or cars they are upside down on or behind paying for.
This means that you can be convicted of insurance fraud even if you have another person
commit the act on your behalf or if your attempt to recover benefits is unsuccessful.
Those who
commit acts such as rape, robbery and assault can and should be arrested and punished to the full extent of the law.
When the child gets slightly older, some mothers decide to explain in vague terms that the
father committed some act of violence against her.
The criminal justice costs of violence are also high: People who
repeatedly commit acts of violence may spend several years or even decades of their lives in prison.
However, just because a procedure is ultimately unsuccessful does not mean that the doctor, nurse, physician's assistant or
hospital committed an act of medical malpractice.
You trust in a book that was written by man (man who has killed,
stole committed all acts of negativity) and society tells you that every word in it is correct.
It is prohibited to
commit acts leading to disorder and division, affecting the security of the state and its public relations, or undermining human dignity and rights.
There have also been a ton of documentaries made, all of which I've seen, and all of which call into question who might have
really committed these acts.
I believe that when
adults commit acts of violence or serious harm to other people, that is what we need to be spending our resources on.
Many states have enacted no - fault divorce statutes, which protect both parties from having to prove that the other
party committed an act considered grounds for divorce.
Usually it takes the belief that you are acting in the name of some god (s) to
commit acts like 9/11.
Likewise, you don't know that all humanity is evil, even though some
people commit acts that are commonly referred to as evil.
In most states, a prosecutor must be the one to bring charges against animal hoarders
for committing acts of cruelty to animals.
Now he has succeeded in seizing and manipulating the sources commanding the very origins of matter — springs so deep that he can release for his own purposes what seemed to be the exclusive property of the sidereal powers, and so powerful that he must think twice before
committing some act which might destroy the earth.
room for doubt about a defendant's guilt in a criminal case, in a civil case, the plaintiff must prove that it is 51 percent (or more) likely that the
defendant committed an act of malpractice, and that the malpractice was the cause of the plaintiff's injuries.
A more holistic approach — one capable of ending sexism and sexual violence within military practices — would be to acknowledge the values intrinsic in militarism that condone and promote an idea of hypermasculinity, which is determined upon one's ability to express power through the devaluation of others
by committing acts of violence.
«If the police receive full cooperation from the general public, that would discourage the bad guys
from committing these acts within certain neighborhoods because they would know that they're not going to be able to get away with it,» Fowler said.
The East, co-written by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (who directed and previously collaborated with Marling on Sound of My Voice) centers around an ex-FBI agent (Marling) who goes undercover to infiltrate a group who targets major corporations that
commit acts against the environment.
Prior to 1969, marriage was generally regarded in most states as a contract between two parties that could be dissolved only if one of the
spouses committed an act legally recognized as incompatible with the continuation of the marriage.
In criminal proceedings, the Crown Attorney bears the burden of proving that the defendant not
only committed the act alleged but did so «intentionally or recklessly, with knowledge of the facts constituting the offence, or with wilful blindness toward them.»
However even if you think she didn't deserve that much money as compensation, it is entirely possible that the court awarded her the amount as «punishment» to the offenders, to dissuade them from
committing the act again.
Hell - bent on avenging Billy's death, no matter the human cost, she pushes Julian
into committing acts of increasing brutality.