Sentence examples for decisive action taken from inspiring English sources

After the ugly post-election violence here in 2008, and in the face of recurrent corruption scandals, many have been eager to see decisive action taken against lawlessness.

The Age reported that the Australian Football League, whose chief executive, Andrew Demetriou, praised the decisive action taken by the N.R.L., will be re-examining the records of the St . Kildaclub, an Australian rules football team where Waldron was chief executive from 2002 to 2004.

United's action in sacking Aakjaer was praised by Kick it Out which said: "We commend Manchester United for the swift, decisive action taken after the offensive comments posted by Torben Aakjaer on Facebook were brought to the club's attention by the Guardian.

The only decisive action taken on 9/11 came not from the military, but from the courageous passengers who stormed the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93, leading the hijackers to crash the plane over Pennsylvania farmland before it could reach its intended target in Washington.

My guess -- without the nudge from the Huffington Post, which may or may not have elicited the subsequent decisive action taken by the IEA, the Department of Energy would still be instructing us that Hurricane Gustav is no reason to make our oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve available to steady the turbulent distortions being caused in the market because of the advent of Gustav.

"The bottom line is that a complete investigation was done, decisive action was taken and steps have been implemented to improve our security process," Mr. Tenet said.

Decisive action was taken.

Decisive action was taken to protect civilians.

Therefore, decisive action was taken.

The UK diaspora fears the extortion will continue unless decisive action is taken.

Unless decisive action is taken very soon, the next generation will see the last of the weather we know.