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This spirit of migration, which grew out of the ancient manners and necessities, and sometimes operated like a blind instinct, such as actuates birds of passage, is very sufficient to account for the early habitation of the remotest parts of the earth, and in some sort also justifies that claim which has been so fondly made by almost all nations to great antiquity.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

To continue this historical trajectory of being a highly responsive urban district, the project proposes a fish farm (works), where the future of aquaculture actuates the next transformation phase of the area.

Fish Works 2008

I think that someone in the bank actuates all of the transfers at once - no need for individual attention to each transfer. —

Scanning Your Money to the Bank - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

The legitimacy of Parliament will remain open to dispute until promise of change actuates into real reform - "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Hannah Fisher: "Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely" 2009

The button actuates the arm in Copenhagen, fixed above a 'table,' which slams the tabletop when the button in NYC is pressed.

Richard Reiss: Interactive Voting Project Connects New York and Copenhagen on the Last Day of the Conference 2009

To illustrate the similarity between racism and Fascism, he said, The desire to deprive some of our citizens of their rights—economic, civic or political—has the same basic motivation as actuates the Fascist mind when it seeks to dominate whole peoples and nations.

Former CIA director Porter Goss cannot believe the way members of Congress are pretending they don't remember briefings on enhanced interrogation. Ann Althouse 2009

To continue this historical trajectory of being a highly responsive urban district, the project proposes a fish farmworks, where the future of aquaculture actuates the next transformation phase of the area.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

We still maintain the fiction that nothing but the love of peace actuates our foreign policy.

Idealism & Practicality 2006

We still maintain the fiction that nothing but the love of peace actuates our foreign policy.

Idealism & Practicality 2006

Using radio frequency, the system actuates an alarm bell when the train moves within three kilometers of a level crossing.

Railways Experimenting Advance Warning System for Unmanned Level Crossings 2008