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As power ebbed from the corporation in the late 1970s and 1980s and became vested, once again, in free-acting individuals, the basis for collaboration between comparatively progressive elements within business and a broadly progressive state tended to disappear.

The New Corporate Republic, or The Predator State Jim Horn 2008

As power ebbed from the corporation in the late 1970s and 1980s and became vested, once again, in free-acting individuals, the basis for collaboration between comparatively progressive elements within business and a broadly progressive state tended to disappear.

Archive 2008-09-01 Jim Horn 2008

Society can be an agent in these processes, not in the sense that it is a free-acting, freethinking individual, but insofar as it can exercise an independent force.

Changing and Unchanging Values in the World of the Future (Conference)~ Session One 2001

But that, of course, was why those like himself, the Monitors and the other free-acting agents of the Star, could not accept the Visitants.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

It is held on the body by free-acting _suction_ or _vacuum_ Pads.

Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Cluthe Rupture Institute

While in case of Single Rupture, the side not ruptured is protected against strains by a free-acting Protection Pad; this supports and strengthens the well side, prevents all danger of double rupture.

Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Cluthe Rupture Institute

Has Automatic-Acting Holding or Rupture Pad on the ruptured side, and a free-acting Protection Pad on the side not ruptured, thus protecting the well side against strains, etc.

Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Cluthe Rupture Institute

She was too good-looking and free-acting to be sound; and her misshapen and delicate son was, so the severe man concluded, a curse, in all probability, for past offences.

The Place Beyond the Winds Harry Spafford Potter 1906

Praise in its new sense of admiration for useful and pleasure-giving conduct or motive, is as powerful a force and as adequate an incentive to good conduct and good motives, as praise in the old sense of admiration for a deliberate and voluntary exercise of a free-acting will.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

Conspirators, and other Slave-owners also, had, by this time, come to hate the Northern free-thinking, free-acting, freedom-loving mechanic and laboring man, because the very fact and existence of his Godgiven

The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5 John Alexander Logan 1856