acting on

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Sheinbaum’s predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, championed laws that barred foreign security agencies — including the DEA, CIA and FBI — from acting on the ground without informing Mexican federal authorities.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

A spokesperson said: "Officials acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Justice are examining if there are grounds to challenge the Parole Board's decision through the reconsideration mechanism".

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

“It was not that important,” she said of her 2004 trial for acting on insider information and lying to federal prosecutors.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

"Seeing both central nervous system changes in brain scans and systemic changes in blood chemistry underscores that these mind-body practices are acting on a whole-body scale."

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

The Joliots had hypothesized that the same radioactivity they had induced in boron with alpha particles would be produced by deuterons acting on carbon.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik