Sentence examples for action a quote from inspiring English sources
The front of my CODEPINK t-shirt read, "The most recognizable feature of HOPE is ACTION" (a quote from Grace Paley) and the back was stenciled with "End the Afghan Quagmire".
The Republican Party tried to get in on the action by making up a quote from Abraham Lincoln to celebrate what would have been his 208th birthday Sunday— "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
The militants "strongly condemn this repugnant and inhumane action," a Taliban statement quoted by AFP news agency said.
With the new TrueView for action format, advertisers can include a custom call-to-action button — like "Get a quote," "Book now" or "Sign up" — in their video ad.
Administration officials also pointed to a 1989 Los Angeles Times article about a Senate vote predating Bush's action, which quoted an unnamed aide to a senator as saying that such a move would affect 1.5 million immigrants; other news articles on the vote said "hundreds of thousands". None of the estimates appeared especially well-grounded.
Fred Kaplan, in the online magazine Slate, described the real issues behind Hastert's action, quoting a congressional aide who expressed amazement as White House lobbyists bashed the Senate bill and came up "with all sorts of ludicrous reasons why it was unacceptable".
Consistent with our vision and mission, we are looking for concrete, hands-on approaches to global health challenges, that is, pictures and images that address and deliver a powerful reality about Global Health in Action, evoking the quote from Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie that 'A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second' (3).
