'pointed action' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an action that is intended to have a particular effect or to accomplish a specific purpose. For example: The CEO's pointed action of replacing several senior managers was intended to increase efficiency within the company.
Since he was appointed interim chancellor four weeks ago, Mr. Levy has taken a series of small but pointed actions aimed at leaving his mark on the huge bureaucracy even if he stays on for only a few months.
Will this epoch, which began on 9/11 and had a new chapter written on 7/7, end only with the apocalyptic defeat of one side or another, or will it end, as all previous terrorisms have, with unspoken concession and quiet remedy and pointed police action and the workings of time and politics?
But the press ignored the pointed Yippie action.
Brown's pointed call to action seems to have been just what CBS was looking for.
The GUI replaced the typed command lines common on previous computers with graphical icons on the screen that invoked actions when pointed to by a handheld pointing device called the mouse.
Mr. Wadsworth's pointed direction keeps the action moving forward even when the music circles back, though not without occasional distractions.
The script's most controversial innovation, however, was a series of "flash forwards", inserted at pointed moments in the action, following "older" Leo's return visit to Marian.
Focusing on a counterterrorism unit, the series began filming in November 2001, and is so swift in its action, so pointed about post-9/11 threats, that it is easily the best suspense show around.
But Mr. Reynolds, a conservative lawyer who has called for a redefinition of affirmative action, faced pointed questions from the chairman of the committee, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, and other Democratic senators, fueling doubts over the likelihood of Senate approval.
Through diplomacy and public appeals, the Vatican sought to avert a war in Iraq, and some Vatican officials have raised pointed questions about American actions there since the fall of Saddam Hussein's government.
