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act upon

VERB
  1. have and exert influence or effect
    She worked on her friends to support the political candidate
    The artist's work influenced the young painter

How To Use act upon In A Sentence

  • It is hardly necessary to ask the latter question, for chance-medley could not lead to regular operations -- operations so regular that a court of law may act upon their evidence. Science and Morals and Other Essays
  • "Mother, we taught our kids to act upon the leading of the Holy Spirit."
  • Some of them are produced by rough, others by abstergent, others by inflammatory substances, — these act upon the testing instruments of the tongue, and produce a more or less disagreeable sensation, while other particles congenial to the tongue soften and harmonize them. Timaeus
  • The data used for China is to emphasize this vital fossil energy component's environmental impact upon a country so thus to the world.
  • Vernadsky tallied up the billions of organisms on Earth and considered their collective impact upon the material resources of the planet.
  • By the same token, ‘the later we postponed publication, the less would the inevitable odium react upon the British’.
  • As long as you're not perpetrating a criminal act upon someone, you ought to be free to do whatever you like.
  • The Iraqi authorities try in vain to turn a deaf ear to the UN economic sanction which would eventually produce enormous impact upon the former's politics and economy.
  • Science since Darwin is fact upon fact, instance upon instance, experiment upon experiment, principle upon principle, which fitly joined together by some master mind may establish some great truth.
  • One thing, amongst many, that readily comes to mind is that the blog impact upon the commoditisation of journalism has, and should, continue to strengthen public voice. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » DIY Media: Howard Rheingold on youth, DIY media, public voice
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