Furthermore, self-observation (observation and performance follow-up and results) implies two types of actions: self-monitoring (comparison of the actions carried out or the resulting products with criteria that assess the quality of what is being undertaken) and self-recording (record of actions while being executed to promote in-depth review).
These are administrative records of actions that individually mean little but lend themselves to aggregation over long time spans.
A database of third party-mediations of domain disputes maintained by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers shows no records of actions involving Mr. Bush or Mr. Kerry.
Liberal Democrat councils - and council groups - campaigning on their record of action and delivery, with the promise of still more.
Underpinning this denunciation was Nelson's long record of action to preserve America's habitat and mobilise public opinion on the issue.
You know perfectly well that what happens in every other country in Europe where there is multi-party democracy and parties work together is that they share a record of action when they are in government, but they go to that electorate with that shared record of action, but with also separate priorities that they are putting to the electorate for the forthcoming period.
Eschewing a fragmented montage, Iñárritu follows the action over extended stretches of time as if his doing so produced no mere photographic record of action but chunks of raw reality with their authenticity guaranteed intact.
It would have sent a clear signal about the importance of the sectors in the world's efforts to combat climate change, to two organisations that have a poor track record of action on greenhouse gas emissions.
The Nobel peace prize teeters every year between two dangers: giving the award to some who can make peace only because they have stopped, or at least paused, the wars they waged for years – Henry Kissinger would be the best example – and giving it to people whose sentiments are irreproachable but whose record of action is thin.
Asked whether the trade cases against China were timed for political impact, the senior administration official replied by e-mail that "President Obama has prioritized enforcement of Americans' rights in the global trading system from day one, and this administration has a consistent record of action to support American jobs".
It presents a record of action and insight into violence that might otherwise disappear into the mob.
