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Just when you’ve got this all figured out, you see the signal from your partner, and spring into action.

So I actually went to school in Belfast, which was where all the action happened.

It equipped neighbors with specific advice, and many committed to taking action.

So learning from science and art, we saw that we can talk about global armed conflict through light bulbs, or address racial inequality in the US through postcards, or tackle the lack of even one single monument of a woman in Sofia by flooding the city with them, and, with all these works, to trigger dialogue, understanding and direct action.

Despite climate denial at the highest levels, cities are taking action.

So cities are and can take action.

So I've got two calls to action, for the introverts and for the extroverts.

Introverts, my call to action for you is, I know you like being on your own, I know you like being in your head, but activism needs you, so sometimes you've got to get out there.

What this will empower is to turn this creativity into action.

And I would expect that, if our human civilization carries on, then maybe in the next century people will be asking, why on earth did these people today in the year 2003 not see the obvious things that they were doing and take corrective action?

To accomplish this herculean task, the xylem relies on three forces: transpiration, capillary action, and root pressure.

This pull is aided by a fundamental property of water called capillary action.

And then our team will immediately spring into action.

Time magazine recently reported that "Extreme action sometimes has to be taken, and Wales locked the entries on Kerry and Bush for most of 2004."

Does positive action build positive brain functioning?

The flux of these charged particles is a crucial step for muscle contraction: the change in charge creates an electrical signal called an action potential that spreads through the muscle cell, stimulating the release of calcium that’s stored inside it.

So even if the brain sends a signal, the muscle cell can’t generate the action potential necessary to contract.

And that makes this data actionable and helps you understand what you're breathing by telling you where and when you've been exposed to poor air quality, and that way you can make informed decisions to take action against pollution.

But it can make the quality of our air much more transparent, and if we can empower people to take action to improve their own health, then together we can act to bring an end to our pollution.

That’s turbulence in action, and turbulent flows have certain characteristics in common.

So now is the time for action, for regulations that address the appeal and access of these devices to youth.

The plan was to give you a portrait of Nollywood, of this incredible film industry, following Bond in his quest to make an action movie that deals with the issue of corruption, called "Checkpoint."

Love, action.

And we think that their movements are so slow, they slip under the radar of the monstrous harpy as it's flying about the canopy, scanning for action.

These red flags help us take action to protect ourselves and other maritime mammals.

What I found was a process to break down the headline and understand the consistent layers in each one: a subject takes an action against a target engaged in some activity, so that "White Woman Calls Police On Eight-Year-Old Black Girl" is the same as "White Man Calls Police On Black Woman Using Neighborhood Pool" is the same as "Woman Calls Cops On Black Oregon Lawmaker Campaigning In Her District."

That is vengeance, that is not our mission, that's a different game so we level up to level three, where the objective is to change the action, also known as "calling the police is not your only option OMG, what is wrong with you people!" (Applause) And I need to pause the game to remind us of the structure.

A subject takes an action against a target engaged in some activity.

We need to change the action, whether that action is "lynches" or "calls police."

Our objective in level three is to change the action.

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