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Act on   /ækt ɑn/   Listen
Act on

verb
1.
Carry further or advance.  Synonyms: follow up on, pursue.
2.
Regulate one's behavior in accordance with certain information, ideas, or advice.





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"Act on" Quotes from Famous Books



... answered the purpose," said he, "of strengthening the government and increasing public debt and therefore an insurrection was announced." To Madison he declared: "The excise law is an infernal one. The first error was to admit it to the Constitution; the second, to act on that admission; the third and last will be to make it the instrument of dismembering the Union." Madison, who had at first looked upon the suppression of the insurrection as an electioneering scheme, thought it fortunate for the lovers of ...
— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks
... individual differences in his pupils, it may be advisable also to warn the student-teacher against any extravagant tendency in the direction of such a study. A teacher is occasionally met who seems to act on the assumption that his chief function is not to educate but to study children. Too much of his time may therefore be spent in the conducting of experiments and the making of observations to that end. While the data thus ...
— Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education • Ontario Ministry of Education
... was denied them by the mobilization. With a pardonable ignorance of the people's feelings, and also, it must be owned, with a too naive confidence in the accuracy of the People's Chosen, the Allies had decided to act on this assumption: an assumption on which M. Venizelos himself was ...
— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott
... The young man's first act on entering the dining-room was to go straight to a mirror, remove his hat, arrange his hair with a little comb which he took from his pocket; after which he went to a porcelain basin with a reservoir above it, took a towel ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas
... Servant, with its solemn warning of inimitable doom: "So shall also My heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts." And, finally, all these words are made fast for ever in the minds and consciences of men, by the great act on the Cross when the dying Redeemer prayed for the men who slew Him: "Father, forgive them; for they know ...
— The Teaching of Jesus • George Jackson


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