Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone.

Against such a termination of human life on earth by human action, he then proposes as an alternative that we `` negotiate at once with the Russians and get the best terms which are available '', that we deliberately `` negotiate from comparative weakness ''.

Shortly after the French order to set sails was abandoned, the British fleet began rapidly approaching once more and Brueys, now expecting to come under attack on that night, ordered each of his ships to also place springs on their anchor cables and prepare for action.

Some scholars argue that conspiracy theories once limited to fringe audiences have become commonplace in mass media, contributing to conspiracism emerging as a cultural phenomenon in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the possible replacement of democracy by conspiracy as the dominant paradigm of political action in the public mind.

It identifies elites, blames them for economic and social catastrophes, and assumes that things will be better once popular action can remove them from positions of power.

Elizabeth had good reason not to place too much trust in her commanders, who once in action tended, as she put it herself, " to be transported with an haviour of vainglory ".

In describing longer time periods, English needs context to maintain the distinction between the habitual (" I called him often in the past "-a habit that has no point of completion ) and perfective (" I called him once "-an action completed ), although the construct " used to " marks both habitual aspect and past tense and can be used if the aspectual distinction otherwise is not clear.

He once again commanded 2nd Battalion at Hazebrouck in April 1918, where which it took such severe casualties that it saw no further action.

This action showed the Alamanni that Rome was once again present and active in the area.

Luthor observes Superman in action, and once the gunmen are dispatched, hands the hero a personal check in an attempt to hire him.

Friedman once said, " If you want to see capitalism in action, go to Hong Kong.

* 1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.

A common problem in treating methadone overdoses is that, given the short action of Naloxone ( versus the extremely longer-acting Methadone ), a dosage of Naloxone given to a Methadone-overdosed patient will initially work to bring the patient out of overdose, but once the Naloxone wears off, if no further Naloxone is administered, the patient can go right back into overdose ( based upon time and dosage of the Methadone ingested ).

This was designed to force Congress to make itself available at least once in a year to provide the legislative action the country needed in the face of the transportation and communication challenges present in the 18th century.

The Vatican has never been involved in war in any major way and has only seen anything close to military action once when it was bombed during World War II.

By the action of the Emperor Maximilian and of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more restricted to Westphalia, and here, too, they were brought under the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts, and finally confined to mere police duties.

After considerable maneuvering and inconclusive action, the French were once again decisively defeated at the Battle of Oudenarde ( 1708 ).

They acted as excellent trolling rods, though the action was much too stiff for sportsmanlike playing of fish once hooked.

The plan was to provoke a German reaction by laying mines in Norwegian waters, and once Germany showed signs of taking action UK troops would occupy Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen and launch a raid on Stavanger to destroy Sola airfield.

Caught in its scattered winter quarters ( action of Amberg, 7 Jan .), it was driven from point to point, defeated at the Battle of Pfaffenhofen and the young elector Maximilian III Joseph had to abandon Munich once more.

The action unfolded in a confused way with each side at once anxious to cover its own trade and to intercept that of the other.

About to lead his men into action, Niven eased their nervousness by telling them, " Look, you chaps only have to do this once.

While sound effects were nearly universally used for action happening in the game, music to accompany the gameplay was a later development.

This view is contrasted by moral universalism, which argues that, even though people disagree, and some may even be unpersuadable ( e. g. someone who is closed-minded ), there is still a meaningful sense in which an action may be more ' moral ' than another ; that is, they believe there are objective standards of evaluation that seem worth calling ' moral facts ' - regardless of whether they are universally accepted.

Anarcho-punks universally believe in direct action, although the way in which this manifests itself varies greatly.

Due to the nature of Vedic Sanskrit, a term such as Ṛta can be used to indicate numerous things, either directly or indirectly, and both Indian and European scholars have experienced difficulty in arriving at fitting interpretations for Ṛta in all of its various usages in the Vedas, though the underlying sense of " ordered action " remains universally evident.

The moral effect was enormous throughout Italy, the action of the authorities was universally condemned, and the martyrdom of the Bandiera brothers bore fruit in the subsequent revolutions.

pp. 515, 524 ) excludes this work here, although he admits that from a literary point of view it fits into this group ; but he considers it foreign to the work in general, since Moses, unlike the Patriarchs, can not be conceived as a universally valid type of moral action, and can not be described as such.

The Austrian School, carefully founded and first developed by Carl Menger in the 1860ies, and published in 1871 as Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre ( English title: Principles of Economics ), by contrast believed that economics was the work of philosophical logic and could only ever be about developing rules from first principles — seeing human motives and social interaction as far too complex to be amenable to statistical analysis — and purporting their theories of human action to be universally valid.

Such departures as occurred were due to the exigencies of the times, and are to be corrected by official action as opportunity affords, so that this Church may be brought into the stream of historic Christianity and be universally acknowledge as a true branch of the Catholic Church.

Libertarian thinker Tibor Machan defends negative liberty as " required for moral choice and, thus, for human flourishing ," claiming that it " is secured when the rights of individual members of a human community to life, to voluntary action ( or to liberty of conduct ), and to property are universally respected, observed, and defended.

This action by Grishin backfired and was almost universally viewed as a cruel act.

Since the noumenal cannot be perceived, we can only know that something is morally right by intellectually considering whether a certain action that we wish to commit could be universally performed.

" Neale explains that " in order to take action with the messages and guidance of the conversations, wanted to make the truths and lessons from the CwG book not only functional, but also universally available.

The game was almost universally praised by critics as a compelling action game and received high scores, even receiving several " Best GBA Game Of E3 2005 " awards.

However, Eritrea condemned Israeli military action during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict.

This action led to the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 638, which condemned all hostage takings by all sides.

The action is condemned by the Yishuv at the time, but the bodies of the assassins are brought home from Egypt in 1975 to a state funeral and burial on Mount Herzl.

The Government of Nigeria, in its official statements, has both condemned the terrorist attacks as well as supported military action against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

As was typical in guerrilla warfare, they were engaged in a campaign of economic sabotage in an attempt to combat the Sandinista government and disrupted shipping by planting underwater mines in Nicaragua's Corinto harbour, an action condemned by the World Court as illegal.

The UN immediately condemned the action, and a coalition force led by the United States was sent to the Persian Gulf.

He not only refused to take part in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces, but actively and openly condemned that action.

It condemned as " in no way justified " the Israeli action taken in response to that interference in the form of an attack by Israeli regular army forces against Syrian regular army forces on Syrian territory.

The United Nations swiftly condemned the action as a flagrant violation of international law.

However, Eritrea condemned Israeli military action during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict.

Jewish organisations were horrified by Grynszpan's action, which they condemned more severely than most non-Jewish liberals, while echoing the plea of extenuating circumstances, and condemning the subsequent victimization of all German Jews in response to the act of an isolated individual.

Finally, the group action on one side ( being the firing squad ), with the condemned standing opposite, presents a visual contrast that reinforces to all witnesses that solidarity is an overriding necessity in a military unit.

Corrientes supported Urquiza's action, but Rosas and the other provinces condemned the " crazy, traitor, savage, unitarian " Urquiza.

In two letters to Eden sent on August 3 and August 10, 1956 Gaitskell condemned Nasser, but warned that he would not support any action that violated the United Nations charter.

While the Agreement was repudiated and condemned by Unionists, it was said to become the basis for developing trust and common action between the governments, which in time would ultimately bring about the Downing Street Declaration of 1993, and the subsequent republican and loyalist cease-fires.

3 ), and he does not conceal his opinion that the action of the Jews in taking the spoil of the Egyptians is to be condemned ( Gen. R. xxviii.

This action was condemned by Kentucky Equality Federation because the church pastor stated officials told him it was because of their tolerance of homosexuality.

In a separate action, Barea Soranus and his daughter Servilia were also condemned to death ; with Thrasea were condemned, but to lesser penalties, his son-in-law Helvidius Priscus and associates Paconius Agrippinus and Curtius Montanus.

The UN Security Council condemned the North Korean action by a 9-0 resolution ( with the Soviet Union absent ) and called upon its member nations to come to the aid of South Korea.

As a result of the St. Patrick's Cathedral action, ACT-UP was publicly condemned by Mayor Edward Koch and some media for what they viewed as militancy and disrespect.

In April 2003, following warnings by the Bush administration to the government of Syria, Eagleburger condemned the possibility of military action in Syria or Iran, saying that public opinion would not support such a move and that " If President Bush were to try it now, even I would feel he should be skinned alive.

As an attempt at atonement, the paper established a charity fund for the victims of mental illness, although some mental health charities condemned The Suns latter action that day as being grossly cynical in the light of the former.