Sentence examples for worthwhile action from inspiring English sources

Mr. Basavich is an immensely gifted pool hustler, or used to be until his reputation spread, making it hard for him to find any worthwhile action.

"I daresay you will tell me there are all sorts of legal problems that prevent any worthwhile action... !" In November the environment minister, Morley wrote: "Since I wrote to you on 21 September, the Task Force Members have been asked to respond to a paper on 'Possible areas of Intervention by the High Seas Task Force'.

Ben Zimmer in his "On Language" column in the New York Times on September 3, 2010, traced the etymology of this phrase to football and rodeos but insists that "man-up" can be a call for the exercise of machismo or a call to perform a worthwhile action, such as the fight to end violence against women proposed by The Man Up Campaign.

Members can pledge to participate in each action, and the most popular (and hopefully the most worthwhile) actions rise to the top of the list.

The House letter states, "Mandatory arbitration clauses strip basic legal rights away from students and ban worthwhile actions from ever being heard in court.

If it does, it may be more attributable to monetary policy and the slump in the pound than to government action, worthwhile though the stimulus package and loan-guarantee schemes may prove.

But the environment minister, Greg Hunt, pointed to the collapse in iron ore prices and suggested it was worthwhile to examine actions "in the policy space to remove regulatory barriers which may be prohibiting or preventing efficiencies".

To have the country honour men for doing what they did at a time when difficult personal decisions made their actions worthwhile for the overall good meant the same thing for all citizens.

It would reduce greenhouse gases more than any other single climate-change action.Worthwhile Canadian initiativeExpanding the Montreal protocol would not, by itself, keep the rise in global temperatures within safe bounds.

However, one analyst told the BBC that it was still worthwhile to take court action as it underlines the illegal nature of sites such as The Pirate Bay.

It's hard to feel that anything other than political action is worthwhile right now, but I realized that writing is a way of reaching people because we are all hard-wired to need stories, to feel we are not alone, to understand the whole human experience about why people are the way they are.