Sentence examples for a lengthy action from inspiring English sources
Strategy was not a lengthy action plan.
Mr. McTaggart then began a lengthy action against the French government in the French courts.
This led to a lengthy civil action, brought against the commissioner of the Met by one of those detained.
Their members mounted a lengthy rearguard action against the forces of efficiency, which promised to benefit their customers at the expense of their own traditional sources of profit.
Can the United States military greatly reduce its involvement in Iraq soon, or will the troops be mired there in a lengthy police action?
Although the Chirac defence team denied all responsibility, anti-corruption campaigners insisted that the constitutional complaint was the latest manoeuvre in a lengthy rearguard action by the former president's entourage to spare him the humiliation of a trial.
Both the journalist and John Birt, the then director general, were sued by the twins in France, and after a lengthy legal action Sweeney was ordered to pay 20,000 francs in damages by a court in Rennes.
It was required to reflect the ruling by Mr Justice Turner in 1998 following a lengthy court action brought against the last Tory government and British Coal which had resisted the miners' claims for justice.
That has served to fuel the lingering animosity between the clubs and the prospect of a lengthy legal action extending into the season ahead, together with the controversy surrounding Cardiff's complaint to the FA, appears to have dissuaded Palace from reuniting the pair at Selhurst Park.
Despite a lengthy legal action and a daily picket outside parliament called by Chilean refugees, including women who had been tortured under Pinochet, the British government reneged on its obligation to Spain's criminal justice system and Pinochet was allowed to return to Chile.
And why was the Ghostbusters trailer so ropey when the film itself fires off a top-quality zinger every 10 seconds or so – except for the lengthy action scenes?
