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Acted in sentence

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They acted differently towards me."
On the other hand, 15 month-olds would stare at her for a long time if she acted as if she liked the broccoli, like they couldn't figure this out.
And these changes made the gene not act as well as the normal gene would have acted.
So, I acted like a two-year-old, and refused to work.
But, if he instead acted out of a delusional fantasy, if he was motivated by some random mental illness, he's in a completely different category.
They acted sweet.
They acted silly.
We may have algorithms that are likely to predict what we are about to do, and we may be held accountable before we've actually acted.
A couple of years ago, I put a video on Youtube, and in the video, I acted out every terrible conference call you've ever been on.
We have this intellectual, this Darwinian revolution in which, thanks to Darwin, we figured out we are just one species among many; evolution is working on us the same way it's working on all the others; we are acted upon as well as acting; we are really in the fiber, the fabric of life.
They were uniquely modern, because the murderers acted knowing well that millions of people would tune in to watch.
And I can't help but think, as an emergency physician, how many of my patients that I've cared for over the years were involved in a motor vehicle accident that possibly could have been prevented if this type of analysis was performed and acted upon 20 years ago when this drug was first released.
But suppose in someone else that the gene acted in non-sensory areas.
In the situation with the obnoxious-football-fan-turned-good-samaritan, your brain says, "Well, in my experience, pretty much anyone would lend someone their umbrella, but the way this guy acted at the football game, that was unusual."
By a show of hands, how many of you, by the age of 25, had either acted up in school, went somewhere you were specifically told to stay out of, or drank alcohol before your legal age?
But in this case, the Arctic had acted like a natural freezer and preserved it.
One boy said, "I asked my parents loads of questions, but they acted really weird.
The humans acted as labor.
The security guards wanted to call me an ambulance, but Tom acted as my knight in shining armor, and told them he'd take me home.
GC: I wrote a column about this for Time Motto, saying that I really believe that lot of people put on blinders, and maybe for the first time, some people decided that policies they believed in and being heard and not being invisible anymore was more important to them than the way in which he had acted or acts as a human.
So if you aren't taking action, you're being acted upon.
Because I realized that in the midst of panic and mental block, if I followed my principles, I acted correctly.
I realized that as sharp as I believed I was, I didn't even know who I was or why I acted the way that I acted.
Later came roads and railroads, and they acted as potent firebreaks, interrupting further the flow of fire across this landscape.
These deviations from the flat surface are acted upon by gravity, which tries to restore the surface to its original flat state.
On the steps of the Treasury Building, performers acted out the historical achievements of women to a live orchestra.
So: the qubits come from either ions or electrical circuits, acted on by either lasers or microwaves.
What happens is that bacteria have these collective behaviors, and they can carry out tasks that they could never accomplish if they simply acted as individuals.
My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not.
Eventually, the government acted, and by 2018, the bulk of the Chinese population had witnessed a decline in air pollution by 32 percent on average.
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