Along with the uncertainty surrounding Congressional action, the extent of the fines BP and other companies will pay is still not settled.
3. Strategic action: To determine whether a subject's particular pattern of action is strategic (i.e., planned and intentional), we probe about why they engaged in the pattern of action; the extent to which they planned it out; what they had in mind; whether it emerged out of group discussions, and if so, what the group was trying to accomplish if anything.
State officials, under pressure from families like the Bruenings, said they had little choice but to take drastic action when the extent of the abuse accusations became evident.
When they become confident of their leader, they give him freedom of action to the extent that they ultimately become totally dependent on him.
The action underscores the extent to which commission officials are moving to play regulatory catch-up after the announcement by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York that mutual fund companies encouraged fraudulent trading activities.
Yet Mr. Birnback said that the Ivory Coast action showed the extent to which the United Nations' legal and moral commitment to protect civilians now held sway over key permanent Security Council members, including France, Britain and the United States.
Jehane Noujaim's documentary "The Square," filmed during the popular Egyptian uprising against Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square in Cairo puts you in the center of the action to the extent that the protesters' passion is so contagious, it seems to leap off the screen and into your heart.
Last year, the Middlesex man was struggling with his confidence and his action to the extent then-coach Ashley Giles said he needed to leave the tour "for his own good".
Action, to the extent that it requires appearing in public, making oneself known through words and deeds, and eliciting the consent of others, can only exist in a context defined by plurality.
They can only be subject to such action to the extent to which they are recognized by an experimenter, for example, as a microsomal fraction or an antiserum with a certain antigen specificity, and so on.
Although there is evidence that kava may possess some anxiolytic properties, kava's mechanism of action and the extent to which it may serve as an alternative to pharmaceutical anxiolytics are not fully known.
