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Example sentences for: acted

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On 30 September 1965, a group of army conspirators, who claimed they acted to prevent a possible coup against Sukarno, kidnapped and killed six army generals.
When the initial public offering was first announced, Hong Kong investors acted as if tickets to a Beatles reunion had gone on sale, lining up before dawn outside bank branches to procure the application forms needed to buy shares.
He continued and accelerated a movement in both elite and popular thinking about welfare policy that had largely begun in the Nixon years: that welfare should be much more closely tied to work, that it should be (to use a phrase created, but never really acted upon, by Lyndon Johnson) a "hand up not a handout."
The legal basis for court-ordered busing and other measures is that government officials have purposely acted to keep the schools segregated.
Garry acted like a human, and it made me proud to be human, too.