Action
Meanings and phrases
action
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the state of being active; activity; activeness
- a military engagement; military action
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); natural process; natural action; activity
- the series of events that form a plot
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; action mechanism
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong; legal action; action at law
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
action
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; sue; litigate; process
- put in effect; carry through; accomplish; execute; carry out; fulfill; fulfil
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- a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths; Lautaro Youth Movement; Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces
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- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong; legal action; action
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- the case officer designated to perform an act during a clandestine operation (especially in a hostile area)
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- a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles; Abstract Expressionism
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- prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled; sensitive plant; touch-me-not; shame plant; live-and-die; humble plant; Mimosa pudica
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- the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted
- which provided one of the earliest quantitative models of the action potential.
- Using electromyography to record the muscle action potential of the larynx (i.e.
- A dendritic spike is initiated in the same manner as that of an axonal action potential.
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- the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape; replay; instant replay
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- the efficiency with which electromagnetic radiation produces a photochemical reaction plotted as a function of the wavelength of the radiation
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- a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities
- He pushed affirmative action and same-sex marriage.
- "; "Is affirmative action right or wrong?
- Another popular argument for affirmative action is compensation.
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- a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries; capillarity
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- the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; performance; execution; carrying out
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- a claim sufficient to demand judicial attention; the facts that give rise to right of action
- The elements of this cause of action are:
- The former was the basis of the claim and was the real cause of action.
- In the United States,"invasion of privacy" is a commonly used cause of action in legal pleadings.
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- (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved; chemical process; chemical change
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- legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)
- This is called "civil action for damages."
- Ajay blames Paul for Priya's death and launches a civil action against him.
- It is only through these specific actions that civil action may be taken against an offender.
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- a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group; class-action suit
- There was a class action lawsuit due to this problem.
- Swiss law does not allow for any form of class action.
- On July 19, 2013 the class action lawsuit was settled.
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- acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction; catalysis
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- a mode of action; course
- Priam cannot decide the next course of action.
- The first plan was taken as the default course of action.
- Hitler rejected this course of action.
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- a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture
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- a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands
- propaganda that did not lead to direct action.
- He also supported IWW advocacy of direct action and sabotage.
- He is stymied by a direct action campaign by conservationists.
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- something that people do or cause to happen; act; deed; human activity
- No human action had involved in the driving process and the truck travelled 120 miles.
- His continuing field research led him to think of culture as a local context for human action.
- Skinner considered free will an illusion and human action dependent on consequences of previous actions.
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- action and reaction are equal and opposite; third law of motion; Newton's third law of motion; Newton's third law
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- (chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances
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- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong; action; action at law
- Fearing legal action, DC ordered the story scrapped.
- In response, both announced legal action against him.
- The expansion module prompted legal action from Atari.
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- (neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning; mass-action principle
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- a military engagement; action
- They urged immediate military action to prevent its spread.
- France welcomed the UK's military action.
- The tough military action had brought with it a risk of civilian deaths.
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- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); natural process; action; activity
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- a party of people taking a role in legal proceedings; party to the transaction
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- action consisting of a system of levers that move a felt hammer to strike the strings when a key is depressed
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- a plan for actively doing something
- With his new-found confidence, he comes up with a plan of action.
- The plan of action in transforming the space is in the preliminary stages.
- The three officers agreed on the plan of action and relayed it to the Allied force HQ at Caserta.
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- a local military action without declaration of war; against violators of international peace and order
- The opposition Democratic Alliance criticised the police action.
- The police action in this matter was widely criticized in the mainstream media.
- The police action in Ljuboten coincided with the security forces' counter-offensive in Radusa.
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- committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates; PAC
- Landry also was endorsed by Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum political action committee.
- The NRA-PVF political action committee (PAC) was established in 1976 as a NRA subsidiary.
- Since 1977, a political action committee (PAC) and two subsidiary organizations have been established.
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- action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round; slide action
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- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus; reflex; reflex response; instinctive reflex; innate reflex; inborn reflex; unconditioned reflex; physiological reaction
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- action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round; pump action
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- a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform)
- Research as social action: The research process in art education.
- DJKM founded its social action branch, The Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, in 1996.
- It was a revelation for Hays to see how the arts could serve to empower people for social action.
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- In response, both announced legal action against him.
- The referee of the game took no action against Shearer.
- Legal action against the leaks by Murray is now underway.
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- His two older brothers were both killed in action.
- Three Germans were killed in action and 15 wounded.
- He is ultimately killed in action by Athrun Zala.
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- Armored cars also saw action on the Eastern Front.
- He saw action at Ganawari and other skirmishes.
- With the Tiger-Cats, Suter saw action in just two games.
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- In 2019, Lee starred in the action film "Ashfall".
- Richard "Motown" Guerrero, in the action film "".
- Puraskar Puraskar is a 1970 Bollywood action film.
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- Nevertheless, Israel felt it needed to take action.
- And so, I'm asking—no, demanding—we take action now.
- Homer decides to take action by looking for it.
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- "Video fun" A live action educational video clip.
- A live action film will be released on May 29, 2020.
- Stunt pilot Paul Mantz flew the live action flying scenes.
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- He was killed in action during World War II.
- He was martyred in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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- Therefore, the status of mitigation is “no action".
- Despite calls for his dismissal, no action was taken.
- The British ships observed but took no action.
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- Most spending is done through political action committees.
- The book had the pragmatic goal of studying Islam to inform political action.
- He has mixed ratings from pro-choice and pro-life political action committees.
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- In response, both announced legal action against him.
- In 2012, OHL brought legal action against the Government.
- 20th Century Fox brought legal action against the company.
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- The second installment was the comedy action thriller "Hot Fuzz".
- Bhandal is currently working on his third feature, the action thriller "".
- Sazaa (1972 film) Sazaa () is a 1972 Bollywood action thriller film, produced by S.K.
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- No further action was taken against Cardozo.
- The bill received a committee hearing but no further action.
- No further action was taken against him.
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- Mesa shot many of the action sequences on the weekend.
- The action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping.
- In the course of the game there are three action sequences.
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- The 2nd action was taken on July 24th-25th, 1942.
- No action was taken against Savile at this time.
- Despite calls for his dismissal, no action was taken.
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- Prizes included mini action figures and play jewelry.
- The duo have been made into action figures.
- The character has also inspired action figures and jewelry.
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- Milap Milap is a 1972 Bollywood action film directed by B.R.
- Nethaji Nethaji is a 1996 Tamil action film directed by Murthy Krishna.
- Jwala (1971 film) Jwala is a 1971 Bollywood action film directed by M.V.
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- He returned to action in May 2011 during the playoffs.
- Anderson returned to action after missing eight games.
- He returned to action on 23 February 2019 against the Detroit Pistons.
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- In 2010, he acted in the action comedy film "Sura", also distributed by Sun Pictures.
- In 2016, Free starred as Woody in Rooster Teeth's science fiction action comedy film "Lazer Team".
- Edmund Lee of Screen International describes the film as "a thoroughly entertaining action comedy."
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- The mechanism of action of rufinamide is unknown.
- Their mechanism of action differs slightly.
- The exact mechanism of action is unknown.
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- To date, this is the only action figure of Big Fau.
- Firefly was first released as an action figure in 1984.
- On a visit to a local toy collectors' shop he acquires a rare alien action figure.
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- The action scenes were shot in the villages of Rajasthan.
- The typical Bond guitar line can be heard during some action scenes.
- Miller wrote the film's action scenes, while Ray handled the characters.
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- A final action plan is expected in fall 2019.
- CDKN supported the creation and roll-out of the action plan.
- The book provides advice to organizations in the form of a 10-point CEO action plan.
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- His battalion's first action was at Kharkov in 1943.
- His first action was to grant a royal audience to the Promoters.
- It was his first action in a competitive match since November 2015.
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- It is now hailed as one of the screen's first sound action films.
- He also appeared in many action films, among them "Steel Frontier" and "".
- ", "Dark Shadows") and comic book-inspired action films ("Hulk", "Wanted", "", "").
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- in the action game "", Aeneas is a playable character.
- "Rogue Stormers" is a fantasy action game.
- Contradicting its name, "LaserTank" is in no way an action game.
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- In 2011, Choi headlined KBS' action drama "Poseidon".
- His second film, the action drama "" was released in 2011.
- In 2011, Refn directed the American action drama film "Drive" (2011).
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- There was a class action lawsuit due to this problem.
- On July 19, 2013 the class action lawsuit was settled.
- A class action lawsuit has been filed against the company in Israel.
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- Nine other marines received other disciplinary action.
- However, no disciplinary action was taken.
- He and Wiranto denied that the discharge was a result of disciplinary action.
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- There was a class action lawsuit due to this problem.
- On July 19, 2013 the class action lawsuit was settled.
- A class action lawsuit has been filed against the company in Israel.
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- He was severely wounded in action in 1942.
- He was wounded in action in August 1918.
- After being wounded in action, he was repatriated to Canada.
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- Wick was posted as missing in action, presumed dead.
- No sooner did he arrive was he presumed missing in action.
- Since his body was not recovered he wasn listed as missing in action.
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- Landry also was endorsed by Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum political action committee.
- The NRA-PVF political action committee (PAC) was established in 1976 as a NRA subsidiary.
- Since 1977, a political action committee (PAC) and two subsidiary organizations have been established.
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- Sazaa (1972 film) Sazaa () is a 1972 Bollywood action thriller film, produced by S.K.
- In 2017, Xu starred in the American-South African action thriller film "24 Hours to Live".
- Ek Aur Maut Ek Aur Maut is a Hindi action thriller film of Bollywood directed by K. Khan.
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- These nodes are areas where action potentials can be generated.
- His early worked mainly focused on nerve action potentials and electrophysiology of nerves.
- Dendritic spikes usually transmit signals at a much slower rate than axonal action potentials.
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- The borough lost 99 civilians as a result of enemy action.
- Seven aircraft were lost, only one as a result of enemy action.
- 82-0806) was lost to enemy action.
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- Under mounting national pressure, the State of Texas took action.
- Western took action with his brigade that later earned him a D.S.O.
- Following this Hamas again took action to crush the Salafist groups.
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- Fury organises the settlers to take action against Trist.
- The magistrate agreed to take action against those who were involved.
- July also saw Carlos Ghosn take action against French mass-media for libel.
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- Instead, he wrote: "I prefer to think of what we study as "collective action."
- through contract farming, group marketing and other forms of collective action.
- Mancur Olson founded modern research on collective action and special interest groups.
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- It did not disclose the action taken against Mr Onanuga.
- Any action taken must in the first place concern these two countries."
- Life is like a white canvas, each line drawn, smooth or rough is an action taken.
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- Doers go out and help the cause by taking action.
- Now, big companies are taking action, with the help of the IoT.
- The Sheriff's Department representatives left without taking action.
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- The news followed six earlier days of local strike action.
- The first wave of strike action began on 22 February 2018.
- In 1985, she was hired by United Airlines, during a pilot's strike action.
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- He served in the American Civil War without seeing action.
- In 1918, before seeing action, Balchen was recalled to Norway.
- He served with the 63rd Infantry Division seeing action in France and Germany.
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- In 2010, he acted in the action comedy film "Sura", also distributed by Sun Pictures.
- In 2016, Free starred as Woody in Rooster Teeth's science fiction action comedy film "Lazer Team".
- Bhaijaan Elo Re Bhaijaan Elo Re is an Indian Bengali action comedy film directed by Joydip Mukherjee.
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- F4U-4: The last variant to see action during World War II.
- This unit would see action in the Second Battle of Caloocan.
- He was deemed questionable before the Virginia Tech game, but did see action.
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- The action takes place in the USSR in the 1980s.
- The action takes place in Belarus in the 1980s.
- The action takes place in St. Petersburg in 1908-1914.
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- It is the first such action by teachers in Arizona.
- It was the first such action in Oklahoma since 1990.
- He was ordered by a judge not to take such action again.
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- However, no industrial action was taken.
- KCB had a difficult beginning with ongoing industrial action.
- This ballot achieved a turnout of only 41%, so again led to no industrial action.
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- The action takes place in the USSR in the 1980s.
- The action takes place in Belarus in the 1980s.
- The action takes place in St. Petersburg in 1908-1914.
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- Antoine Fuqua's action movie is entirely free of surprise.
- Oneindia.in stated that ""Pokkiri" is a full length action movie of Vijay."
- He also played pilot Harry Walker in the 1973 action movie "Birds of Prey".
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- The chain should only come into action when pulled, not when hanging loosely.
- Against Wake Forest, he saw his first action when he returned four kickoffs for 101 yards.
- Olivocerebellar neurons exhibit rhythmic excitatory action when harmaline is applied locally.
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- It prefers sheltered, low wave action waters.
- All the islands have disappeared from wave action and caldera floor movements.
- Stagnancy was required to avoid churning or sculpting of the sediment by currents or wave action.
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- The bill received a committee hearing but no further action.
- If the reason is correct and traceable no further action is needed.
- "Ouragan" saw no further action and was broken up for scrap in 1949.
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- "Elli" saw action during World War I.
- At least one Su-25 squadron saw action during the August 1990 Invasion of Kuwait.
- "Elli" saw action during World War I and in the disastrous Asia Minor Expedition.
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- The British ships observed but took no action.
- The referee of the game took no action against Shearer.
- However, the city council took no action on the proposal.
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- The situation was now so acute that immediate action was necessary.
- They have repeated their call for Canada to take immediate action to avoid irreparable damage.
- C182 urges all governments to take immediate action to identify and eliminate the worst forms of child labour.
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- This produced many ideas and proposals, but little action.
- Once the regular season began, Rodgers saw very little action that year.
- The Marines saw little action for the rest of the operation, sweeps uncovered more PAVN.
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- Some involved large-scale transfers of people by government action.
- These documents have both validated government action and citizen response.
- Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the government action.
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- In 2011, Refn directed the American action drama film "Drive" (2011).
- Nishan (1978 film) Nishan is a Bengali action drama film directed by S.S. Balan.
- Daku Kali Bhawani Daku Kali Bhawani is a Hindi action drama film directed by S.R.
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- There was even court action, which the BBC won.
- Douglass called for court action to open all schools to all children.
- Trans Union requested a review of the compliance order which led to court action.
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- After signing with the Bears, Griese saw limited action.
- He returned to the field in 2008 but did not start and saw limited action.
- Grimes again saw limited action the following week against the New Orleans Saints.
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- He scored 23 points in 25 minutes of action before leaving the game.
- In his debut, Morris recorded 2 points and 2 rebounds in 11 minutes of action.
- He only totalled 226 minutes of action during his spell, and was subsequently released.
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- He also said that the government would take legal action.
- He threatens to take legal action against her if she abandons the child.
- Some of the dismissed staffers planned to take legal action against the station.
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- He was in favor of taking decisive military action against Christophe [8].
- The President of the BJP, Rajnath Singh, called for a joint India-US military action against Pakistan.
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- The action adventure co-stars Will Sampson and Melody Anderson.
- "Aquaria" is an action adventure game, based heavily on exploration.
- Naksha Naksha ([English: "Map") is a 2006 Indian fantasy action adventure film.
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- So Much Gone by: Poetpunk "All poetry is a call to action."
- Their call to action, highlighted in their manifesto includes: 1.
- "The Washington Post" Ana Swanson said that the call to action is a "powerful" message.
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- Trusts must obtain the consent of TACs and FCRs before taking any major action.
- 1984 proved to be a busy year for "Point Steele" with her first major action of the year occurring on 5 January.
- His first major action was the pedestrianization of Rédarès Street in 1984, followed by many other routes later on.
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- In June 2008, U.S. officials announced they would not take any action against Giesecke & Devrient (G&D).
- Japan viewed the activities of Lim's organisations with disfavour, but were unable to take any action on American soil.
- But, when the Kingdom of Sarawak annexed Brunei's Pandaruan District in 1890, the British did not take any action to stop it.
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- Most runway incursions happen quickly, leaving little time for corrective action.
- When merited, the FLA oversees investigations and corrective action for any violations found.
- NASA finally decided that this phenomenon did not pose any safety risk to the astronauts and took no corrective action.
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- Elizabeth, on the other hand, wanted him "to avoid at all costs any decisive action with the enemy".
- The decisive action was the attack of the Russian Reiters, who knocked the enemy out of position and fled.
- Steven E. Woodworth wrote that "Gettysburg proved only the near impossibility of decisive action in the Eastern theater."
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- The book is the third in an Indiana Jones–style action series.
- He is currently costarring on the syndicated action series "SAF3".
- She also acted in NBC's action series "Taken" (playing Asha Flynn).
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- Because it is stable there are no conservation action plans.
- Two action plans were devised.
- Based on a review of these data, CTC boards revise their action plans as needed.
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- He also threatened legal action after his exit from the show.
- The BCP threatened legal action against the Independent Electoral Commission.
- Turner then contacted the Embassy of Norway in Washington, D.C. and threatened legal action.
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- He ruled that the law could not be put into action.
- It is not long before they are put into action.
- Battlecruisers were put into action again during World War II, and only one survived to the end.
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- Civil War action games such as "" and "War of Rights" would take and improve the same steps years later."
- They have influenced other open-world action games, and led to the label "Grand Theft Auto" clone on similar games.
- He said that role-playing elements were added as the design work on pure action games was less appealing to developers.
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- These were rates that contemporary bolt action rifles could not match.
- Springfield Model 1922 The Springfield Model 1922 is a .22 caliber bolt action rifle.
- The rifles use .22 LR ammunition and are bolt action or Fortner (straight-pull bolt) action.
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- Goldman took legal action against nine of these news agencies, claiming they violated his copyright.
- This attitude changed in the mid-1980s when TSR took legal action to try to prevent others from publishing compatible material.
- Some influential citizens, notably Cleon, reviled the play as slander against the "polis" and possibly took legal action against the author.
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- on the lack of action by politicians funded by the NRA.
- A bishop condemned the lack of action by the government.
- Ben-Gurion even kept silent in face of the accusations about his lack of action.
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- Romania planned to take an offensive action on 16 April 1919.
- The minor battle was McClellan's only tactical offensive action against Richmond.
- Oil production became so low any possibility of offensive action became impossible and weaponry lay idle.
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- Sdaw Sdaw is a 1990 action video game developed by Lankhor.
- Mutsu Tonohohon Mutsu Tonohohon is an action video game released in 2002 by Tomy.
- G.Nius G.Nius is a 1988 French action video game developed by Lankhor for Amiga and Atari ST.
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- It recognises acts of gallantry in action in hazardous circumstances.
- He was slightly wounded and received the Silver Star for gallantry in action.
- The citation said that it was awarded for: "For conspicuous gallantry in action.
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- the damage roll that many games require after a successful combat action).
- He led his green troops into their first combat action at the Battle of Perryville.
- The regiment, which saw no combat action, remained there until the close of the war.
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- An action group was established.
- In spring 2019, Richards co-founded Supermajority, a women's political action group.
- It was the first direct action group of its kind, and grew to be a national organisation with 24 chapters.
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- So in my Godzilla, you know, less dialogue and more action.
- The game ends as Duke promises that after some "R&R", he will be "...ready for more action!
- Atari added more action buttons for its Pro Controller, to improve performance in fighting games in particular.
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- The two fighter squadrons went into action in August, with 89 Polish pilots.
- The 25th Armoured Assault Brigade first went into action at the crossing of the Senio on 9 April 1945.
- The 12th US Infantry Regiment lost 54 killed, 102 wounded and 56 missing out of 470 who went into action.
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- The action took place north of Islamabad.
- On the other hand, information about when the action took place (i.e.
- This action took place at Murfreesboro, in the Battle of Stones River.
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- Chervochkin was arrested during the action and was placed under arrest for a month.
- In the 16th and 17th centuries, theatre music was performed during the action of plays and as afterpieces.
- During the production of the film, lighting was an issue during the action sequences and the song "Chellamae".