deliberate act

collocation in English

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deliberate
adjective
uk
/dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət/us
/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/
(often of something bad) intentional ...
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act
noun
uk
/ækt/us
/ækt/
something that ...
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(Definition ofdeliberateandactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With an intelligent controller these two thresholds can be made distinct and so the release of an object is a robust anddeliberateact.
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The tardiness or inefficiency of the municipal authorities in suppressing popular revolt was therefore seen by the crown as adeliberateactof connivance.
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These are the fact that it is adeliberateactand the fact that clones are examples of identical twins with noncontemporaneous lives.
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Given these provisos, the scenarios that we have considered need not be thought to entail that everydeliberateactwhich prevents the existence of something valuable is wrong.
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It certainly seems possible for a customary norm to provide a protected (or preemptive) reason for action, despite its not being the product of anydeliberateactof creation.
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Is he aware that the pickets regard the keeping open of this gasworks as adeliberateactof provocation?
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Most strikes, of course, are not premeditated; they arise as a quick reaction to adeliberateactof management.
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It is important to recognise that euthanasia is adeliberateactto end life.
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It would then be understood that this was adeliberateacton the part of this country in waiving the interest, which we were paying.
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A fairly wilful anddeliberateactwill be required before an offence is committed.
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It was adeliberateactof governmental policy in this country.
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He has chosen appointment by selection as adeliberateactof policy, and he has carried out that policy ruthlessly to the end.
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Here are these people, as adeliberateactof policy, being harassed and driven from these sites on which they settle.
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If an instruction has not been issued, that does not constitute adeliberateactof intentional or reckless damage or destruction.
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There was adeliberateactof policy which pushed down to the poverty line large numbers of our people.
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We know it is adeliberateactof policy.
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It may well come, but it will not be thedeliberateactof a political party that will bring that about.
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Everything which falls within the class of battle damage, although it is the result of adeliberateact, carries no right to compensation.
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It was therefore adeliberateactof policy to reduce the quota for the home market.
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