The phrase "action somehow" is not standard or commonly used in written English.
It may be used in contexts where one is trying to convey that an action is being taken in an unspecified or unclear manner.
Example: "We need to take action somehow to address the issue before it escalates."
Alternatives: "take action in some way" or "act in a certain manner".
The assumption behind the "big society" brand that state action somehow stifles community action is questionable when the evidence from Finland tells the opposite.
"It may have been that the desire to take a principled action somehow blinded him to thinking long term," said Barbara Lee Toffler, an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and an expert on corporate responsibility.
Now, is that because, as Josh Greene suggests, when a situation is up close and personal, the way you imagine engaging in the pushing action somehow plays a role, as either a legitimate or illegitimate moral heuristic, whereas in the case where you're imagining conscripting the workers, what you're doing is somehow more distant, in terms of the harm's way into which you're putting it?
And even when we accept the description of the case, we find such action somehow puzzling, defective, or dubiously intelligible, in a way that action contrary to one's judgments of financial wisdom (for example) is not.
The obtaining of a moral state of affairs would be the obtaining of a situation 'with a demand for such and such an action somehow built into it'; the states of affairs which we find in the world do not have such demands built into them, they are 'normatively inert', as it were.
Second, Mackie mentions Samuel Clarke, who in the early 18th century argued for (in Mackie's words) "necessary relations of fitness between situations and actions, so that a situation would have a demand for such-and-such an action somehow built into it" (1977: 40).
This itself is relevant to the second factor that predicted vicarious shame: whether the ingroup members' actions somehow reflected badly on oneself.
But even if Ms. Seelig's actions somehow triggered her illness, that hardly justified the treatment she got — or rather didn't get — at the hospital.
"That's a big deal because clearly many buyers and sellers in this community were under the impression that their actions somehow could not be traced online".
A key thread of the narrative over the last three days has centered on the alleged impact of the company's data analysis on the 2016 presidential election with the undertone that if true, the company's actions somehow represent something new and unsettling in using data to advance a political campaign.
Are your Department's actions somehow different than Beijing's?
