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Discover LudwigThe phrase "action to undo" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a specific step or measure taken to reverse or negate a previous action.
Example: "The software includes an action to undo any mistakes made during the editing process."
Alternatives: "step to reverse" or "measure to negate".
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The fear is that, just as recreating some marshes may have favored snow geese over other migratory birds, human action to undo the results may have unintended consequences for other wildlife.
Though Edsall gestures favorably toward the economist James K. Galbraith's argument that long-term deficit projections are unreliable and unimportant, he still treats them as absolute constraints on spending, requiring "drastic action" to undo.
Members of Utah's congressional delegation started lobbying Trump shortly after his November win to take unilateral action to undo the designation for Bears Ears, which they said should have been protected instead through legislation.
In many countries citizens would throng the streets to protest this absurd government shutdown and to demand rational action to undo the damage inflicted on the economy by a tiny minority of right-wing extremists who hate President Obama and who want to make his policies fail, whatever the cost.
Even now it is waging a rear-guard action to undo the easing that the FASB promulgated in April.
"I think Microsoft is making fun of the Commission with its proposal," said Thomas Vinje, the legal representative for Opera and Firefox in the E.U. case, who wants further action to "undo decades of abuse".
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A number of other Trump administration actions to undo regulations it inherited, including a rule on grizzly bear protection and another on chemical spills, are likely to receive close scrutiny from the courts.
A second rationale for affirmative action is to undo the effects of current prejudice.
The drug, called LMTX, is the first one with its mode of action — trying to undo so-called tau tangles in the brain — to reach the final stage of clinical trials.
On the heels of the confirmation of new Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, Trump is now expected to take executive action this week to undo the EPA's Clean Water Rule.
Many of his actions aimed to undo work from the Obama era.
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