Suppose you only read this much: 'By this act of joining hands you do take each other as husband and wife.
It would seem that a deep principle of human nature is involved in this act.
By this act of joining hands you do take each other as husband and wife and solemnly engage in the presence of these witnesses to love and honor and comfort and cherish each other as such so long as you both shall live.
Justice Harkins solemnly opened his big book and read, "'By this act of joining hands you do take each other as husband and wife.
Sir, this act of supreme magnanimity has been represented, as if it had been a measure of an administration, that having no scheme of their own, took a middle line, pilfered a bit from one side and a bit from the other.
Accordingly, we are indebted to this act of his for the preservation of our laws, which some senseless assertors of the rights of men were then on the point of entirely erasing, as relics of feudality and barbarism.
This act, as a violation of the Treaty of Ryswick, and as an arrogant intermeddling on the part of a foreign ruler, excited the wrath of the English people, and inclined them to war.
This act, and the firmness and eloquence of Lamartine, prevented the establishment of an ultra-republican, socialistic Directory.
This act, however, was not accepted by the duchies themselves, or by the Diet of the German Confederation; so that the seeds of strife still remained.
This Act, and the Land Act passed the same year (1860), although well meant, failed to improve the situation of the tenants.
This act, the result of long discussion and negotiation, places our commercial relations with the great Oriental Empire on a more satisfactory footing than they have ever heretofore enjoyed.
This act, however, applies only to employees of common carriers.
A commission was created and endowed with what were supposed to be the necessary powers to execute the provisions of this act.
By this act a proposition was made to all nations to place our commerce with each on a basis which it was presumed would be acceptable to all.
This act, being considered an infringement of the rights of ambassadors and of nations, will form a just cause of complaint to the Government of France against the officer by whom it was committed.
If so, what kind of a purging is here meant, seeing thousands, and thousands of thousands, of the persons intended by this act of purging were not then in being, nor their personal sins in act?
A violation of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall be punished as such.
This act ended an era, the Diaz era, in Mexican history.
The principle of assessing income at its source, as applied in this act, does not relieve the individual from the necessity of making a full revelation to the tax officials of his personal income from all sources.
With regard to this act, my lords, it is to be inquired, whether it is likely to be executed with more diligence than the former, and whether the same obstacles may not equally obstruct the execution of both.
On the credit of this act, as soon as it was passed by the commons, the ministry borrowed a large sum at three per cent, but it was understood that the sinking fund was pledged as a collateral security to pay any deficiency.
Perhaps some deeply-pondered scheme of policy had its influence in this act of seeming justice.
This act of decided resistance was, however, followed by no effort to escape.
But even in this act of devotion, the stranger bore the air of one who wished to do pleasure to his entertainers, rather than to obtain that which was asked.
And where and when did you this actof brave vengeance?
No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding slaves, or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this Territory, shall sit as a juror on the trial of any prosecution for any violation of any Sections of this Act.
That involuntary servitude for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall in no wise be prohibited by this act.
But hear General Jackson further: "If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the coordinate authorities of this government.
That for all the purposes of this act, the jurisdictional limits of Washington are extended to all parts of the District of Columbia not now included within the present limits of Georgetown.
The First Consul replied to this act of hostility by causing to be arrested, and soon afterwards interned at various places in his territory, all the English sojourning or travelling in France.
This act of bankruptcy introduced into the charges of the budget an economy which it was thought ought to satisfy all those who had not personally to suffer the consequences.
This act of justice and clemency was the object of a Senatus Consultum.
That nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize a change in the relation of said Slaves.
Slaves, between the ages of 18 and 45, in any State, shall be called for under the provisions of this Act.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this act" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
