Sentence examples for not only taking action from inspiring English sources

It has used this ability to carve out a big role for itself, not only taking action against companies but also against national governments that provide various forms of state aid for their firms.

That means not only taking action yourself but also getting everyone you know to do the same.

"Martyrs, perpetrators of suicide attacks, are our new weapons, and they will not only take action in Iraq," Taha Yassin Ramadan, a vice president who is considered one of the nation's top two officials after Saddam Hussein, is quoted as saying in the new issue of the German magazine Der Spiegel.

City Manager Mike Flad was under pressure from all sides of the aisle to not only take action, but restore public confidence in a department that already was full of good police officers who in many circumstances were taking a bad rap.

The government is therefore not only taking consistent action against offenders but also tackling the causes of unacceptable behavior.

The action is not only taking place in the United States.

In writing letters, the middle class not only took effective action in a turbulent world but also defined what they believed themselves to be able to do in that world.

The Landau commission investigating Israeli interrogation techniques, not only took no action but deemed Israel had the right to "use moderate physical pressure" – torture to the rest of us.

The Federal Reserve not only taken has action unprecedented since the Great Depression – by lending money directly to major investment banks – but also has put taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars in questionable trades these same bankers made when the good times were rolling.

He said it was important for Australians to not only take responsibility for their own actions but their broader community.

We must go further than those who have come before us in order to tackle the severe and broad issues by not only telling the stories, but taking action on the stories.