It's an action rather than a set of beliefs.
In the Old Testament, Sullivan argues, lying is an action rather than an inner state, a pragmatic tool often ignored by Yahweh, and sometimes even rewarded -- as when Jacob hairies himself up in order to trick his father into bestowing Esau's blessing.
For students like Erika, "plant growth" was an action rather than a process involving movement and transformation of matter, and "comes from" implied causality rather than movement of matter (as when we say "his brown eyes come from his mother").
To see how this happened, we can consider what our data reveal about the three exemplar students, Erika, Spencer, and Olivia: For students like Erika, "plant growth" was an action rather than a process involving movement and transformation of matter, and "comes from" implied causality rather than movement of matter (as when we say "his brown eyes come from his mother").
The training regime will be an action video game (visual) task rather than a psychophysical one, as video game experience is known to be physiologically arousing and psychologically motivating (Green, Li, & Bavelier, 2010).
To read is to describe and/or re-say, while explanation is understood to be a pragmatic action rather than a fixing of knowledge.
I would argue that love is a choice, an action, rather than an emotional reaction.
Miliband, whose promise to freeze bills for 20 months if Labour wins the 2015 election has sent the issue to the top of the political agenda, said what was needed was action rather than a review.
Moffat said that the episode was "an action roller coaster" rather than a story intended to be scary.
Though it was a civil action, rather than a criminal one, the case actually went to trial unusual in this day and age and the jury found Bank of America and Mairone liable.
