1.   He portrayed the financing as a patriotic act forced upon him because of an international embargo against Yugoslav funds being sent abroad.

2.   I especially like that walking to the grocery store to get bread instead of driving the mile might become a patriotic act.

3.   It speaks volumes about these uncertain times when shopping at the mall becomes a patriotic act.

4.   Simply going to work, flying in a plane and going shopping suddenly are patriotic acts.

5.   Some people in the malls reported that they were shopping as a kind of a patriotic act.

6.   Many such buys are considered patriotic acts because the works involved had previously been sold overseas or looted by invading armies.