The phrase "action has passed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a particular action or event has already occurred or is no longer relevant.
Example: "The deadline for submissions has passed, so we can no longer accept any entries."
Alternatives: "the time for action has elapsed" or "the opportunity for action is gone."
In "Le Petit Soldat" (1960) — with Anna Karina, whom he married in 1961 — there are the lines "The time for action has passed..
In "Le Petit Soldat" (1960) — with Anna Karina, whom he married in 1961 — there are the lines "The time for action has passed...
Fixing this problem is less glamorous and more difficult than engineering the ethnic mix at elite colleges and law schools, but it would help far more people.The time for affirmative action has passed.
"Affirmative action has passed its time," said Fred Steeper, a pollster who advised former Gov. Pete Wilson of California, a Republican, in the 1990s in his battles against illegal immigration and racial preferences.
Under ICC rules, Hafeez can bowl again once his remodelled action has passed another assessment.
I now believe that the opportunity for such action has passed," he wrote.
Criminal proceedings against the clinic and its staff came to nothing in 2005 because the time limit for legal action had passed.
But Oliver Letwin's department did not bother replying within the usual timeframe of a few weeks, waiting instead until the committee's recommended deadlines for action had passed.
The state law provision is an important issue for environmental health advocates, as many US states – in the absence of federal action – have passed stricter laws of their own, restricting the use of some flame retardants or endocrine-disrupting chemicals, for example.
UBS PR has countered the lawsuit by arguing that the statute of limitations for the plaintiffs to bring their action had passed stating that the investors were "injured" when they purchased shares in the fund (before May 2013) not when they realized their investment was junk (after May 2013).
Cooley said the legal actions had "passed from this earth with Mr. Hubbard's body.
