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Action in sentence

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It's based on our belief that the action of one person can change a lot, but the actions of many coming together as one can change the world.
It was therefore no surprise that when word got to her that Karura was under attack, they immediately sprang into action.
Where do you think the action is going to be? Shift of subject.
At every step Hedge repeats the action of looking left and looking right.
And we had to take action.
This next is the Sudanese girl, a few moments from death, a vulture hovering in the background, a picture that went round the world and shocked people into action on poverty.
We now have the capacity to find common ground with people who we will never meet, but who we will meet through the Internet and through all the modern means of communication; that we now have the capacity to organize and take collective action together to deal with the problem or an injustice that we want to deal with; and I believe that this makes this a unique age in human history, and it is the start of what I would call the creation of a truly global society.
She was so appalled by what was happening in Austria as a result of the First World War and what was happening to children who were part of the defeated families of Austria, that in Britain she wanted to take action, but she had to go house to house, leaflet to leaflet, to get people to attend a rally in the Royal Albert Hall that eventually gave birth to Save the Children, an international organization that is now fully recognized as one of the great institutions in our land and in the world.
In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity.
To get the symmetrical shape of the horse was very difficult, because I had to get the horse to rear up and look as though it was in some kind of action.
It's capillary action and transpiration pulls water up, a drop at a time, pulling it, releasing it from a leaf and pulling it up through the roots.
It's the place where we can see and touch and hear and feel climate change in action.
Geologic process in action here.
He gives them a platform; he gives them some rules; he gives them the tools and then he kind of orchestrates the conversation; he orchestrates the action.
And we can see the continuation of this process of learning to think about other people's thoughts by upping the ante and asking children now, not for an action prediction, but for a moral judgment.
And what we changed was not people's moral judgments when they're deciding what to do, when they're making action choices.
Now, let me show you some of my friends in action, caught conveniently on film by the Italian police, and smuggling duty-not-paid cigarettes.
Religious teaching must always lead to action.
She's taught me that love is an action, not a feeling.
So it's really important to think about the action of love overrules as a verb.
And the idea is a simple, simple idea, which is the fact that the consumer has moved from a state of anxiety to action.
Why a marriage contract and not any other reason for regular annual action?
And that is the translation of the feelings that we may have about compassion into the wider world, into action.
It's not an action, but in the English language, it is also an action.
We are so connected that we must treat each other as if an action toward you is an action toward myself.
I want to open by quoting Einstein's wonderful statement, just so people will feel at ease that the great scientist of the 20th century also agrees with us, and also calls us to this action.
And the choice of the action, of course, hopefully will be more practical than poor Asanga, who was fixing the maggots on the dog because he had that motivation, and whoever was in front of him, he wanted to help.
But these movies are made to be understood despite such handicaps, and she has a great time in the song and the dance and the action.
So, affordances are the qualities of an object that allow us to perform an action with it.
GB: Well I think we can persuade people that what is necessary for Britain's long-term interests, what is necessary for America's long-term interests, is proper engagement with the rest of the world, and taking the action that is necessary.
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