"persuasive action" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the type of action needed to persuade someone or convince someone to do something. For example: "A persuasive action plan is needed to convince the board to accept the proposal."
After all the place-setting and boy-ogling, the book turns into a persuasive action thriller when Evie outflanks the evil lawyer who is trying to repatriate her.
Rhetoric, for the proponents of the new rhetoric, is a practical discipline that aims not at producing a work of art but at exerting through speech a persuasive action on an audience.
With his white pocked forehead, sticky hair and delicate features, Christopher Gorham, the star of the new UPN series "Jake 2.0," may be the actor that television needs most right now: a persuasively awkward tech-support geek who can become, as if by a trick of the light, an equally persuasive action hero.
Despite its aspirations to act as a regional powerbroker, Turkish talk has not been matched by persuasive actions in another troublespot – Cyprus.
We have proposed that intervention components be described in terms of discrete and identifiable behaviour change techniques (e.g. persuasive communication; action planning) for which there is an existing evidence base of effectiveness in other settings.
She sent the chart to the War Office; and it is a fair assumption that it contributed to the improvements in military hospitals that she brought about.Nightingale's chart is a beautiful and persuasive call to action, but it is not perfect.
In each one, he has been persuasive in depicting actions taken against star athletes as violations of their civil rights.
A report by consultants Grant Thornton concluded there was "persuasive evidence" the actions of the three women "might well have constituted a deliberate cover-up".
Aliyah Vinikoor New York, July 6 , 2008 To the Editor: Stephen L. Carter makes a persuasive argument that affirmative action is merely a distraction from the real racial conundrum afflicting impoverished blacks.
The tight-lipped discipline of effective ruses and persuasive lies stiffens the action throughout, and Zemeckis controls the tense scenes with a similarly taut and restrained sense of suspense, paying particular attention to the static volatility that risks being sparked by a ticking clock.
This struck me as much less persuasive in explaining the action of a hero.
