What takes place tonight is an act of courage and weakness mixed with strength.
The sequester was put into place as part of the Budget Control Act in order to compel Congress to do its job.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent's sometimes imaginative, sometimes annoying new production for the English National Opera is set nowhere in particular: the whole of Act I takes place in the she's-read-too-many-storybooks mind of Senta as a young girl.
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Nor can we rule out effects of other features of the 1994 Crime Act or a host of state and local initiatives that took place simultaneously.
But no matter where it was ultimately headed, the act of heroism that took place on that aircraft stands out as one of the most amazing feats of heroism in our country's long history of heroes.
Lake Austin has become a premier lifestyle resort, the kind of place that offers both a head-spinning variety of services and activities but also doesn't act like a spa.
They are proposing to roll back tax cuts that we had put in place during the Recovery Act that give 95 percent of working Americans tax relief.
Tech and wireless companies know that if they can get such a ban in place now, it will literally take an act of Congress to allow states and localities on the Web further down the road.
The political discussion will center on the automatic spending cuts put in place by the sequester clause of the 2011 Budget Control Act, the expiration of the Bush tax cuts coupled with other tax increases, the debt ceiling, and entitlement reform, among other things.
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Mr Swankie, 52, from Peterhead, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to a breach of the Dangerous Dogs Act after accepting that Woofie was "dangerously out of control in a public place".
The success of this subtitle of the Dodd-Frank Act will depend on how much weight the prospect of a monetary reward will place on the benefit side.
The soldier did not take off his boots, an act of desecration in any Muslim holy place.
So before we could even put in place the Recovery Act, you had already seen millions of jobs lost.
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And given what we now know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism.
That's why we acted boldly, that's why we acted swiftly to put in place a Recovery Act that was passed with the help of members of Congress here tonight, and that's being carried out with help from governors and mayors here tonight.
"That this senseless act of violence should be targeted at a place of religious worship is particularly painful, " Singh, himself a Sikh, said.
The very processes and procedures companies have put in place to become efficient and productive have discouraged the very act of thinking itself, the result of which is business as usual (status quo).
With a new president and Congress in place, we must act together quickly to avoid the worst effects of climate change -- in doing so we also will find economic benefits for people the world over.
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Aside from the military reorganization, the act established the National Security Council, a central place of coordination for national security policy in the Executive Branch, and the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States' first peacetime intelligence agency.
In the U.S. and Europe, organizations like the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank have tools in place to act against currency shifts, but these have been missing in similar bodies in the Middle East.
The unemployment rate was just north of 8 percent when the last Recovery Act was put in place.
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We are focused, as an administration, on implementing the Affordable Care Act so that all of its benefits will be in place for Americans receiving health insurance and health benefits.
But even if the Fed does not make a stimulus move on Thursday, the majority of the market place believes the U.S. central bank will act to ease monetary policy in the coming weeks.
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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act seeks to regulate much of the derivatives trading that takes place directly between the likes of Goldman Sachs and American International Group.
But even producers on private lands, where the boom has taken place, are subjected to a steadily growing assortment of federal regulations and Endangered Species Act listings, which we discussed here a couple of weeks ago.
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When I made a programme about the Cambridge phenomenon in the early 1990s, a number of people told me that the place still needed a few billion dollar companies to act as an inspiration for others.
Five Law Lords have embarked on a rewriting of British extradition law, ruling that extradition can take place only if the alleged act was criminal in both Britain and Spain at the time it was committed, rather than at the time of the extradition request.
Meanwhile, in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Rigoletto, " running through May 1, the second act takes place in and around a strip club.
That act began the job of dismantling restriction on speculation that had been in place since the Depression and that speculation will lead to business sector booms and of course, what goes up must come down.
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The command, "Thou shalt not place a stumbling block in front of the blind man" also means that you should not act deceitfully or obscure the truth from those whose choice depends upon the information you give them.
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