aggressive act

collocation in English

meaningsofaggressiveandact

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aggressive
adjective
uk
/əˈɡres.ɪv/us
/əˈɡres.ɪv/
showing anger and a willingness to attack ...
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act
noun
uk
/ækt/us
/ækt/
something that ...
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(Definition ofaggressiveandactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofaggressive act

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Overall, 49% of students reported being the victim of at least one physicallyaggressiveactin the past 30 days, and 33% experienced multiple acts of physical victimization.
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Losey invites the spectator into the space through thisaggressiveactthat also excludes them thereby emphasising the players' experience of the game as a reality.
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The act of the general strike was in a sense a defensive act as much as, if not more than, anaggressiveact.
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I see in that action no endorsement of the methods that were used, and no approval of anaggressiveact.
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In circumstances where mobilisation could be seen as anaggressiveact, a voluntary call-out could be a great political benefit.
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He was a studious, amiable and harmless man of learning, who never committed anaggressiveactin his life.
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That was the start of the break-up of a united response to an overtaggressiveact.
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We do not say that we are going to take anyaggressiveactof war or semi-war, any of those sanctions or reprisals that are justified by international law.
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This term refers to the aggressors' subjective evaluation of the relative effects and danger of committing anaggressiveact.
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Eachaggressiveactis the result of a long cycle of action and reaction, continued through generations.
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For a behavior to be considered anaggressiveact, the individual committing the behavior must intend harm.
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Premeditated aggression is defined as a planned or consciousaggressiveact, not spontaneous or related to an agitated state.
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By submitting to its stronger peer they avoid anaggressiveactfrom the dominant animal.
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Quay suggests that aggressive acts reflect disinhibited approach motivation, resulting in part from diminished activity within the fear system (which normally inhibits approach).
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Prevention techniques for anger prone children need to target the faulty emotion - cognition connections that result in anger perception bias and aggressive acts.
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Pairings within grids, but between sites, produced no aggressive acts among 21 tests.
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It argues that the emanation of noise, polluted air, and so on, onto others' property should be considered anaggressiveactfor which one may be held civilly liable.
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However, almost two-thirds reported no aggressive acts during the past year.
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The students who had played the violent video games were observed to be significantly less affected by a simulatedaggressiveactthan those who didn't play the violent video games.
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Findings from several studies provide evidence to support the harmful, damaging nature of relationally aggressive acts.
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