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The phrase "act and tackle" is not a standard expression in written English, but it can be understood in context.
You can use it when discussing taking action and addressing a problem or challenge directly.
Example: "We need to act and tackle the issues that have been affecting our project timeline."
Alternatives: "take action and address" or "respond and confront".
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Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said: "A failure to act and tackle the dumping of cheap Chinese steel will spell the end of steel in the UK".
Prime Minister David Cameron has said social networking sites must "clean up their act" and tackle online abuse, or face being boycotted.
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"If the Home Office does not act decisively to identify and tackle these abuses, many of the individuals involved may go on to obtain settlement in the UK on the basis of relationships that are not genuine," said Vine.
Backers of the bill argue that allowing 16-year-olds to be tried as adults will act as a deterrent and tackle the perception of impunity.
They may have spawned a thousand dodgy fan websites, but, first, they can both act, and, second, American Beauty tackles today's sexual obsession with youth in such a head-on way, taking it to the borders of paedophilia, that their roles as naive temptresses backfire on everyone around them, including the audience.
Coach Brian McDermott, who spoke on behalf of his player at the hearing, claimed it was a careless act and an "open-handed tackle" in an effort to prevent an offload by Anderson.
Instead of complacently trying to claim that everything is going well, we need a government which understands that there is a deep-seated cost-of-living crisis and will act to tackle it".
"Politicians of all parties, at Westminster and Holyrood, need to act to tackle the root causes of poverty, including low pay and soaring housing and childcare costs.
In response to this, the government has introduced the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act and made £9.5m available to tackle the issue.
"The pace of change on the drug scene is such that we cannot rely on the Misuse of Drugs Act and enforcement alone to comprehensively tackle the issue of legal highs," communications director Harry Shapiro said.
And at every time we must act to tackle the risks to stability and growth, risks that are today already reducing European growth rates to one per cent and raising European unemployment beyond twenty million, risks that now have risen from the doubling of world oil prices".
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