But slowly they take over as Alain Delon ( Life, Sept. 15 ), playing a sometimes appealing but always criminal boy, casually tells a rich and foot-loose American that he is going to murder him, then does it even while the American is trying to puzzle out how Delon expects to profit from the act.

Food may act as a sedative, giving temporary emotional solace, just as, for some people, alcohol does.

" The offer of salvation through grace does not act irresistibly in a purely cause-effect, deterministic method but rather in an influence-and-response fashion that can be both freely accepted and freely denied.

Steven Harper states " Wesley does not place the substitionary element primarily within a legal framework ... Rather doctrine seeks to bring into proper relationship the ' justice ' between God's love for persons and God's hatred of sin ... it is not the satisfaction of a legal demand for justice so much as it is an act of mediated reconciliation.

Alford guilty plea, an " I'm guilty but I didn't do it " plea and the Alford doctrine ) in United States law is a guilty plea in criminal court, where the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence.

However, evidence indicates that harmala alkaloids act only on MAO-A, in a reversible way similar to moclobemide ( an antidepressant that does not require dietary restrictions ).

This is taken from the final act of the graphic novel when Batman does the same thing at the abandoned tenement fire.

Due to this network of fibres and high concentrations of dissolved macromolecules, such as proteins, an effect called macromolecular crowding occurs and the cytosol does not act as an ideal solution.

When a monarch does act, political controversy can often ensue, partially because the neutrality of the crown is seen to be compromised in favour of a partisan goal, while some political scientists champion the idea of an " interventionist monarch " as a check against possible illegal action by politicians.

Whether a given act or omission constitutes a crime does not depend on the nature of that act or omission.

At its second reading, if the Parliament approves the text or does not act, the text is adopted, otherwise the Parliament may propose further amendments to the Council's proposal.

Southern Baptists support the fair and equitable use of capital punishment for those guilty of murder or treasonous acts, so long as it does not constitute as an act of personal revenge or discrimination.

This rule does not usually apply to intentional torts ( for example, deceit ), and also has stunted applicability to the quantum in negligence where the maxim Intended consequences are never too remote applies ' never ' is inaccurate here but resorts to unforeseeable direct and natural consequences of an act.

Since dextromethorphan is an optical isomer of the Schedule II opiate levomethorphan ( but does not act like an opiate ), an exemption was necessary to keep it a non-controlled substance.

However, this does not apply if the civil suit is in regards to having committed a criminal act which the business has been found guilty of in court.

The phrase " Cogito ergo sum " ( I think, therefore I am ) is also commonly associated with Descartes ' theory, because in his own methodological doubt, doubting everything he previously knew in order to start from a blank slate, the first thing that he could not logically bring himself to doubt was his own existence: " I do not exist " would be a contradiction in terms ; the act of saying that one does not exist assumes that someone must be making the statement in the first place.

In deontology, an act may be considered right even if the act produces a bad consequence, if it follows the rule that “ one should do unto others as they would have done unto them ”, and even if the person who does the act lacks virtue and had a bad intention in doing the act.

According to deontology, we have a duty to act in a way that does those things that are inherently good as acts (" truth-telling " for example ), or follow an objectively obligatory rule ( as in rule utilitarianism ).

" Beauchamp & Davidson also highlight Baruch Brody's " an act of euthanasia is one in which one person ... ( A ) kills another person ( B ) for the benefit of the second person, who actually does benefit from being killed ".

The constitution does permit the Governor to act without the consulting the Executive Council and even go against its instructions, but in both cases the Governor must immediately inform the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the United Kingdom, who can overrule the Governor's actions.

It is a forum for bishops of the Communion to reinforce unity and collegiality through manifesting the episcopate, to discuss matters of mutual concern, and to pass resolutions intended to act as guideposts.

She is the one, or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero, or else the concern he feels for her, who makes him act the way he does.

As an act of faith and concern, Christians should abstain from gambling and should strive to minister to those victimized by the practice.

The zakat is considered by Muslims to be an act of piety through which one expresses concern for the well-being of fellow Muslims, as well as preserving social harmony between the wealthy and the poor.

Though the Queen Regent, Mary of Guise, made no move to act against Knox, his activities caused concern among the church authorities.

As Constitutional historian Hermann von Holst noted, " Calhoun's doctrine made it a solemn constitutional duty of the United States government and of the American people to act as if the existence or non-existence of slavery in the Territories did not concern them in the least.

The act stipulates that the United States will " consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States ".

Graceland's " act of faith in serial novelty ," Marling argues, synthesized the " intense concern for personal style " that made B.

Henry was apparently informed of the Wittelsbach's cruel tendencies and in an act of concern for his young daughter decided to terminate the marriage agreement.

" The President of the American Association of Anatomists has expressed concern that the scope of the act is " too broad " and that " Preventing importation of all plastinated specimens could severely restrict their use for medical education .".

News that New Mexico's legislative assembly had just passed an act for organization of a U. S. territorial government helped ease Mexican concern about abandoning the people of New Mexico.

There are also situational users, those who do not actively seek out children but for whom the actual act is opportunistic ; there may be a lack of concern to check the age of a prostitute before engaging in sexual activity.

Thus proneness to embarrassment ( i. e. a concern for how one is evaluated by others ) can act as a brake on behaviour that would be dysfunctional for group or culture.

Kindness is the act or the state of being kind, being marked by good and charitable behavior, pleasant disposition, and concern for others.

Pattison's refusal to act rested largely on his concern that the union controlled the entire city of Homestead and commanded the allegiance of its citizens.

Although he engages in the reckless act of playfully kicking him like a football, Kyle shows concern for his brother's well-being.

The main aims of the organization were “ to mobilize the Jewish people and the democratic forces against the Nazi onslaught ”, to “ fight for equal political and economic rights everywhere, and particularly for the Jewish minorities in Central and Eastern Europe ”, to support the establishment of a “ Jewish National Home in Palestine ” and to create “ a worldwide Jewish representative body based on the concept of the unity of the Jewish people, democratically organized and able to act on matters of common concern ”.

This act did not constitute an official Nazi approval for Kuhn's organization: German Ambassador to the United States Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff expressed his disapproval and concern over the group to Berlin, causing distrust between the Bund and the Nazi regime.

The detection of sexual orientation by outward appearance or behavior is frequently challenged by situations in which masculine gay men who do not act in a stereotypically " gay " fashion, or with metrosexual men ( regardless of sexuality ) who exhibit a lifestyle, spending habits, and concern for personal appearance stereotypical of fashionable urban gays.

The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist.

His early reaction is more one of fascination than concern, but as his priorities gradually change due to Emily's determination to keep from losing him, he finally begins to act like someone who values his humanity.

Brought face to face with the bordereau, his concern was to act swiftly, because, if the affair came to be known before he had taken any steps, he would be reproached for having shielded a traitor.

Thus, she wills to spend the rest of her life offering penitence for what, in earlier chapters, seemed of no particular moral concern ( outside of the care to not be caught in the act ).

In the early deliberations over the appropriate British response to the capture of the diplomats, there was concern that Napoleon III would take advantage of a Union-British war to act against British interests in “ Europe or elsewhere ”.