A mark is deemed abandoned only if ACTS of abandoned as well as an actual intent to abandon are present.

视商标之放弃仅当以行动来放弃及当前有实际放弃之意向。

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Those of us who pushed for the bill will consider ourselves most successful if it acts as an incentive not to have it invoked in the first place.

我们这些推动该法案的人将认为自己是最成功的，如果它能作为一种激励，使其在一开始就不被动用。

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If everyone ACTS as he pleases, everything will be in a muddle.

要是各行其是，那就乱套了。

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Today,if a girl acts like she is better than everyone else, you might say she should get off her high horse.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

But he acts as if the job is great fun.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

"They have not got their acts together. So I think the Swat operation has sent a very strong signal and if the government now starts an operation in even Waziristan, which is considered as a hard nut, I think it has good chances to succeed."

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

If acts that were both costly and purely selfless were common, outside the family or other close relationships, economics would be in trouble.

ECONOMIST: The benevolence of self-interest | The

But if accountancy acts purely in its own self-interest then it is not a profession at all but is more like the Guilds of old, and like them if it acts as they did in monopolistic fashion to exploit others for their own gain then that is an invitation for their abolition as regulators.

FORBES: Have They Pushed the Self Destruct Button at the International Financial Reporting Standard Foundation?

Indeed, if Congress acts responsibly in this one area, markets and the economy will soar.

FORBES: Political Economy