Alas, this misses the fundamental point: Russia is acting out of hydrocarbon weakness, not one of strength.
The more interesting suggestion is that these men are acting out of self-interest.
If your car is acting out of the ordinary, have it evaluated instead of asking for a tune up.
They are not acting out of a sense of obligation, but rather to be a celebrity Mr Literacy, or whatever.
Mr Mulongoti said the MMD's constitution governs the election of a party leader and warned against acting out of panic.
Investors appear to be acting out of fear that this country is headed for a recession, maybe even a severe one.
But appearing on the same programme, Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng accused Labour of "playing parliamentary games" rather than acting out of principle.
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In this instance, as in the foregoing ones, the West is acting out of fear, lest our conduct become grounds for fresh violence.
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It takes advantage of Switzerland's liberal laws on assisted suicide, which suggest that a person can only be prosecuted if they are acting out of self-interest.
In Nairobi, she acknowledged that American personnel had mishandled things, but tried to argue that they were acting out of concern for people's safety, not from callousness.
Iran, too rich in oil to be starved out, acts as though it is engaged in an international holy war, acting out of motives more ideological than economic.
Is Nintendo really making a wise and logical move that works out in the long-term, or simply acting out of the same out-of-touch myopia that could doom them?
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The Supreme Court has said that for a transfer to be a tax-free gift for the recipient, the donor must be acting out of "detached and disinterested generosity" and without expecting any economic benefit.
Some critics have suggested that Mr Chavez is acting out of fears Venezuela's overseas assets could one day be frozen by sanctions, as happened to his friend and ally, the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
If you are the one told to back off and respect boundaries, ask yourself a question and answer honestly: Were you acting out of concern, or were you trying to fulfill some unmet need of your own?
The Southeastern position, in effect, is that Michael Dell is acting out of simple economic self-interest and not out of his stated desire to hasten the transformation of the company without worrying about quarterly financial performance. (But, you are thinking, Gordon Gekko taught us that greed is good, right?) In short, Southeastern is saying that Michael Dell is seizing the day, buying back the company he founded on the cheap.
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Instead of acting out a caricature of a starving author, Shakespeare was now able to buy property and lend other people money.
Still, there's a common denominator of exultant, almost dervishy gyration, along with an acting-out of aggression that can bear a startling resemblance to street fighting.
Today, though, Venrock racks up startlingly high gains in an unimaginably compressed time frame--by acting entirely out of character.
Typically they might involve the course leaders acting out scenes of sibling rivalry.
Perhaps the most important is that in seeking to fix things, America will be acting neither out of charity nor in pursuit of ideological ambition but simply in its own national interest.
They insist that the director didn't just cheat a Latino out of an acting job but the Latino community out of a feel-good story about one of their own who won acclaim for a heroic deed.
According to a 2010 study conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Intel, eight out of ten American adults get frustrated waiting for technology, with half admitting to acting inappropriately or out of character as a result.
Williams was in shock at what unfolded this week, but was not completely surprised that Dorner was capable of acting out like that.
Yes, it is probably the case that if you have a kid playing Call of Duty for six hours at a time, he might come out of the other end of that acting a bit more aggressively.
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Director Gore Verbinksi (who also did the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films) recorded the stars acting out their parts together in a studio instead of having the actors read their lines separately.
Stephen Cecchetti, a professor at Brandeis University's business school, thinks insurers are clever enough to figure out which patients are acting on the results of genetic tests, and to tease out those results implicitly.
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