"take active measures" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to suggest that a person or group take steps to achieve a goal or prevent a problem. For example, "In order to address the issue of climate change, we must take active measures now."
Despite Adams's frantic attempts to take active measures, after Ponomariov played 36 BlackBlack was doomed.
If it does, then this is a powerful reason for the federal government to take active measures to reduce income and wealth inequality — even if it comes at an economic cost to the nation.
Therefore, firms should take active measures to enhance the contributions of such benefits.
In collaboration with the Employment Service give local governments the freedom to take active measures to enable migrants to become self-sufficient.
This underlines the need to take active measures to help students acquire literacies such as critical thinking and reflection that are integral to their development both as professional practitioners and as global citizens (Johnson and Morris 2010; de Andreotti 2014; Ohler 2006).
We can take active measures to reduce our unhealthy habits and increasing the quality of a longer life.
They're taking active measures to accelerate and sustain the decline of the West".
This committed them and their parties to taking active measures to prevent electoral violence before, during and after the elections.
The United States must start taking active measures to promote further reconciliation between the two Koreas while trying to reach its own reconciliation and normalization with North Korea.
A total of 151 individuals and 37 organisations have been sanctioned since the EU started taking active measures after the March 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Internally, Aḥmad took active measures to raise Egyptian agricultural productivity and thereby to increase tax revenues; the huge surplus he left in the state treasury at his death in 884 is a measure of his success.
