and the author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising spirit of resistance to her conquerors, was much complimented for his daring military action.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

Whether this, or overt action, was the cause of the crash must be promptly determined.

More, the U.S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''.

But if his purpose was to inspire terror, his action could hardly have miscarried more obviously.

Her action was involuntary.

Carving was action.

Lublin was the seed of action for the `` final solution '' of the Jewish problem.

The objective behind this action was to place in one agency the responsibility for the management, assignment, and replacement of all vehicles.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

This action was rationalized on the basis of a small survey which indicated that a high percentage of married freshmen women on our campus never become sophomores.

This was true mostly of those Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not perceive the ambiguous figure as people in action.

Although the monarch had frequently asserted that the elections were to be without party significance, his action was an implicit admission that party identifications were a factor.

his search was merely for rules that might limit his freedom of action.

It is conclusive, unless appealed, only upon the particular parties to the particular action which was heard.

The action was a result of a court order, the citation for which ( and for other court action mentioned in this paper ) is taken from the Summary Report for this Conference.

But as he discovers shortly, on returning among intellectuals obsessed by le culte du moi, his experience of action had also taught him a more positive lesson.

But the Latin American republics who have been rather inclined to drag their feet on taking action against Castro also reacted swiftly last week by finally throwing Cuba off the Inter-American Defense Board.

As a possible course of action, it also is the center of debate and is raising many questions.

In a total blockade, action could also be taken against ships bringing in chemicals, oils, textiles, and even foodstuffs.

I think we need to concern ourselves also with the timeliness of action.

On those rare occasions when a faculty member on tenure is not meeting the standards of the institution, the president must also bear the ultimate burden of decision and action.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

It is also sufficient to show the Christian and any other champion of justice that he needs to make sure not only that his cause is just but also that his conduct is just, i.e., that, if economic pressure has to be resorted to, this be applied directly against those persons directly in the way of some salutary change in business or institutional practices, while, if injury fall upon others, it fall upon them indirectly and secondarily ( however inevitably ) and not by deliberate intent and direct action against them.

Motivation usually makes the difference between " good " and " bad ," but motivation also includes the aspect of ignorance ; so a well-intended action from an ignorant mind can easily be " bad " in that it creates unpleasant results for the " actor.

*: But Burke also points out that the concepts of " incipient " and " delayed action " exist in the works of I. A.

In connection with this Jehovah's Witnesses also believe the Holy Spirit is not an actual person but rather is God ’ s divine breath, God's power in action.

Ampère also applied this same principle to magnetism, showing the harmony between his law and French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb ’ s law of magnetic action.

The king also supported the exploration of the Atlantic Ocean led by prince Henry the Navigator but, after Henry's death in 1460, he did nothing to continue this course of action.

were able to inhibit bacterial growth, and even to cure bacterial infections in animal ( Ernest Duchesne in 1897 in his thesis " Contribution to the study of vital competition in micro-organisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes ", or also Clodomiro Picado Twight whose work at Institut Pasteur in 1923 on the inhibiting action of fungi of the " Penicillin sp " genre in the growth of staphylococci drew little interest from the direction of the Institut at the time ).

This case is also used for nouns in several other senses, e. g., where the action occurs " because of " or " without " a certain noun ; nouns indicating distance or direction.

One was also awarded for the same action to Robert Jones ( VC ), born at Clytha between Abergavenny and Raglan.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

It is also possible that the phrase predates both of these and refers instead to Cowboy action shooting techniques.

Bruce Halpenny, a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “ With crime you deal with every basic human emotion and also have enough elements to combine action with melodrama.

Tigris and Euphrates also has completely deterministic action resolution.

This action can also result in the runner being tagged out in a pick-off.

A short hitting action is not only useful for deception: it also allows the player to hit powerful strokes when he has no time for a big arm swing.