Sentence examples for worth action from inspiring English sources

From a day's worth action on the track and on the hardwood to hard fought action in the boxing ring and in the pool, there was something for everyone on Day 12 of the Summer Games.

* Is it worth taking action?

That's how they remain for most of the film (covering about a day's worth of action) with one towel and boatloads of mutual suspicion between them.

What sets 24 apart from other TV shows is not the timing, but the way time is filled, packing each unforgiving minute with 60 seconds' worth of action.

And the turmoil certain to follow such an attack may not be worth military action that simply delays nuclear development, officials say.

It was just as well that 120 minutes worth of action had been crammed into a hugely entertaining first 45 – tension triumphed over technique from then onwards.

Mr. Reilly said the 12-hour format was right for "24" this time around because the spine of the past seasons had about 12 hours' worth of action, with "little events and connective tissue in between".

Or if a previous owner has already tried to update it and the result is "really garish and unattractive, and doesn't look like it belongs," she said, then it's also worth taking action.

The single day's worth of action presents us not with a sense of the world's repletion, as in the circadian "Ulysses" or "Mrs. Dalloway," but of its grotesque inconsequence.

Sky have dropped their coverage of the event after 25 years but Eurosport took up the rights and plan to show 200 hours' worth of action from Flushing Meadows over the next fortnight.

Home and work never come together, and both places offer a feature film's worth of action, which is why this self-effacing freakout by Jacques Rivette, from 1969, runs more than four hours.