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How to use the word action in a Sentence? Page #3

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For gun violence survivors, this is an incredibly painful milestone to mark, and it arrives earlier and earlier each year, but survivors are increasingly taking action, and demanding our lawmakers stand up to the corporate gun industry and take comprehensive steps to reduce the recent influx of mass shootings.

Liz Dunning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think Democrats and the President Joe Biden administration would do well to pay attention to these trends, young people increasingly want climate action from their elected officials and they’re going to demand it.

Lena Moffitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We plan to do everything in our power to stop ConocoPhillips from doing construction in Nuiqsut this winter, we are going to continue to fight this by legal means, by direct action.

Siqiniq Maupin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every president really in the modern era, especially in the last three or four decades, has stretched the use of unilateral action.

Steven Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are looking at all the ways of addressing efficiency and performance, this week we are taking action with a relatively small number of global executives and classified employees following our most recent performance calibration. They will be departing the company starting from today.

Arden Hoffman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A little backfield action.

Brandon Hyde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Learjet pilot read back the instructions clearly but began a takeoff roll instead, the pilot of the JetBlue aircraft took evasive action and initiated a climb-out as the Learjet crossed the intersection.

The FAA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New Yorkers want Santos out of office, and these congressmen’s meaningless words aren’t enough to make up for their failure to actually take action to hold their campaign donor accountable, the least they can do is answer these questions.

The DCCC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s time for us to find a solution and take action, thirty years is too long. You can’t sit back and watch. You got to move forward.

Stephanie Bice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are action-oriented, and we are committed to having open eyes and ears.

Chrissy Houlahan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Committees have just now been constituted, not all of them have even been constituted. So I don’t think it’s really an opportunity to say you haven’t acted, this isn’t my first trip. This is my sixth trip. … So no, Republicans have been taking action. We’ve got a lot of ideas inside Congress.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It seemed like the logical course of action, like something that shouldn’t have been happening in my brain was being fixed, naturally, my brain goes really, really fast, and I don’t even notice it because it’s what I’ve grown up with, and it’s the only mind I’ve ever experienced. But once I started having a different experience mentally, I felt a lot calmer.

Clara Pitts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Personally, I hope to see her take almost any kind of decisive action, to actually do something. there are too many times in recent history that seem to me like someone has gotten called out for something that people had a problem with, and nothing ever happens.

Emily Kohrs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We stand with Sonny and once again call on the social media companies and authorities to take action.

Tottenham Hotspur

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The time for only thoughts and prayers is over, we are in a unique position to take action and save lives. And that’s exactly what we are going to do in the weeks ahead.

Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I sprung into action and started making calls in the United States.

Gary Wasserson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Chessy clearly understood the intent of the motion. She read it, she came to my wife and I and said, ‘They’re trying to silence me. They’re trying to intimidate me into silence. If they think they’re going to do that, they have another thing coming.’ former New Hampshire Attorney General Delaney has a strong track record of upholding the rule of law, including taking action to protect vulnerable victims.

White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in US airspace is a clear violation of US sovereignty and international law, that it’s an irresponsible act and that the PRC (People’s Republic of China) decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things I’m most proud of is on a campus this size how quickly every student staff faculty member immediately took action. They sheltered in place and they did so for hours.

Teresa Woodruff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a team, we’ve decided to take job action.

Christine Sinclair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There needs to be somebody that’s not only going to listen, but take action on that and not dismiss it, far too many students have tried to report things and it’s been dismissed based on the color of their skin, their age or their gender.

Courtney Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we can’t deal at the federal government and states level to reduce improper payments in normal times, then you’re bound to have problems when there are emergencies, i’d urge this committee to continue their oversight to make sure the Labor Department and the states take action on our recommendations so that we’re much better prepared next time to deal with these emergency situations.

Gene Dodaro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In my call today with Director Wang Yi, I made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in US airspace is a clear violation of US sovereignty and international law, that it’s an irresponsible act, and that the (People’s Republic of China) decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ethics is moving through, and if ethics finds something, we’ll take action, right now, we’re not allowing him to be on committees from the standpoint of the questions that have arisen.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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