If the real choice is between a small action and nothing, that small action is far from pathetic.
A small action figure stuck in one of the work's crevices encourages this reading.
A small action oriented group of technical professionals perceived the flood risk and were key drivers providing strategic innovative capacity.
It may be a small action, like rounding up or down in an accounts ledger, or a small inaction, like looking the other way while others do so.
China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplayed the Trump-Tsai call as a "small action" that will not change the bedrock of the "One China" policy.
Often used interchangeably with 'clicktivist', I take it to mean the idea that someone will take a small action (usually online) in support of something to make themselves feel good, and that small action has no real consequence.
Prohibiting certain sunscreens is a small action in the larger fight against global warming, but local officials are calling it a start.
In business school speak kinectic energy means TAKE ACTION, A SMALL ACTION, AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
Thread is a small action unit which is generated in a process.
