Sentence examples for action down to from inspiring English sources
"The new agreement defines action down to the tactical level and locks in alliance political consultations at the highest level," an American official said.
DeMille relishes the chance to shoot the lavish interior scenes he loved, but he also strips the action down to faces and shadows when need be.
Berg's libretto pares the action down to a series of graphic scenes—Wozzeck's encounters with his mistress Marie and their little son, his overbearing officers, the strutting drum-major who seduces Marie and beats Wozzeck.
Screenwriter Tony Kushner has apparently condensed most of the action down to the turbulent last few months of Lincoln's life, but it feels like a rich maelstrom of political intrigue nonetheless.
The brisk eighty-three-minute running time boils the action down to some fairly flat sketch comedy and a very few (although effective) violent sequences in which absurdity and calamity unite to make grim situations seem funny.
("People of good will disagree about whether America should have gone to war. ") We cannot really find it in our heart to complain that network TV will, on most nights, boil the action down to an hour of prime time.
Nichols does just the opposite: he reduces the characters of Mildred and Richard, paring their dialogue and their actions down to essentials as they relate to their heroic struggle to live together as a married couple in their home town, in rural Virginia.
Many of Trump's actions are also peppered with variations on the phrase "to the extent permitted by law," which suggests a lack of clear plans for what should be done or knowledge of what could be done and boils most of his actions down to requests to other bodies to just do something.
Who wants to see action down low to the left of Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard, anyway?
With affirmative action boiled down to a diversity program, it finds itself in retreat.
Martinez said the protests and industrial action were down to the government's refusal to listen.
