The phrase "actions an effort" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "actions and effort"? You can use the corrected phrase when discussing the relationship between actions taken and the effort required to achieve a goal.
Example: "The success of the project depends on the actions and effort put in by the entire team."
Alternatives: "actions and work" or "efforts and actions".
Action against Boko Haram and ISIS would be more on the order of a police action, an effort to shut down bloody-minded bands of killers operating in a lawless corner of the world.
Last month DiCaprio launched a Twitter campaign aimed at Mexican officials to encourage them to take action, an effort that led Peña Nieto to declare the country was focusing "all its efforts to prevent the extinction of the species".
Democrats have characterized their actions as an effort to resist what they say is a bid by the administration to pack the courts with right-wing ideologues.
Political analysts read the governor's actions as an effort to strengthen support among core Democratic groups, who have been lukewarm about Mr. Davis's re-election campaign.
The American Embassy expressed "surprise and concern" on Friday about the situation, saying, "Taken together, the actions suggest an effort to intimidate political opposition leaders and the independent media".
Her mother, Catherine Bruce, was among several parents who saw the principal's actions as an effort to wrest control of the hundred-member team from the outside coaches.
Dr. Aquino, 54, of Glen Head, N.Y., told Judge Rakoff that in return for the payments, he understood Mr. Kruger, a Brooklyn Democrat, "would take official actions in an effort — a failed effort — to keep Parkway Hospital open".
Mr. Hanssen asserted to his wife that he had not given the Soviets any significant information and described his actions as an effort to trick the Soviets in exchange for money, according to the account Mrs. Hanssen has given.
Mr. Eilertson, who had no previous criminal record, said his actions were an effort to fight back against corrupt banks that had handed off the couple's mortgage time after time and whose top executives never faced consequences for their actions.
