Sentence examples for welcome action from inspiring English sources

"The release of political prisoners is a welcome action.

"The Commission is now pushing for stronger security and has taken welcome action to insist national registries are secure.

We should welcome action, but we should also set minimal entry points for businesses who choose to sign up.

Gov. George E. Pataki's recent commutation of Emmanuel Nkemakolam's 15-years-to-life sentence for felony drug possession (news article, Dec. 28) is a welcome action.

He caused a stir mostly because it is so rare to hear the scion of the Gandhi family say anything that is not a trite generalisation.Mr Gandhi's welcome action has awkward consequences for Congress.

Throughout the day of the announcement, as the Refugees Welcome action petered out, our crowd of volunteers flooded into the streets joyously – recalling highlights of the campaign and hopes for the future.

Increased awareness of the severe health-worker shortage that the need to roll out ART and HIV services helped generate has also led to welcome actions to remedy this problem.

Republican bigwigs welcomed action against IS while grumbling that the president had waited too long.

While they welcomed action against abuses by the Islamists, some expressed concern that the Malian Army, humiliated by the loss of half the country, would be bent on revenge.

Today, the White House halfheartedly welcomed action by federal regulators to impose throughout the West a system that looks and smells a lot like price caps -- though the White House said it was something different.

On young people's initiatives, including extending the YoZone where discounted fares are valid, the commission's chair Ruth Redfern, late of our sadly-abolished Yorkshire Forward, welcomes action as showing to a generation discovering democracy that consultation is not just a talking shop.