• The FDA has said that after devoting some time to investigating fully the effects of caffeine on kids, it will take action, as some other countries have.

    FORBES: As Caffeinated Gum Hits The Shelves, FDA Jumps To Attention

  • As you know, the Senate Democrats, Harry Reid sent you a letter begging you, essentially, to take -- consider some sort of executive action on this debt ceiling issue.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a News Conference

  • And so meeting with stakeholders is a way of rallying supporters for comprehensive reform, asking them to go out and speak on behalf of that goal, and to try to generate some support and generate some pressure on Congress to take action.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • People could skip lunch if they wanted, but they would have to take some action - fill out a form, or log on to a website.

    BBC: Should lunch breaks be mandatory?

  • He gave a statement today, which addresses some very important issues that we in Washington have to take action on in the very near future.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • He has stepped up this precisely because there's an urgent need to take action on the economy and jobs, and broadly, on some of these issues that is made all the more urgent by Congress's refusal to act -- by Republicans' in Congress refusal to act.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • It was perceived as a way, at least by some analysts here, of applying pressure against the Americans and the Iraqi Kurds who rule northern Iraq to take some action against the PKK, which has operated for years out of mountain bases on the Iraqi side of the border.

    NPR: Turkish Government Feels Pressure to Hit Kurds

  • It also said that while it did not plan to do any more work on the national fuel market, it might still take action in some local markets if there was "persuasive evidence of anti-competitive behaviour".

    BBC: OFT says UK petrol market is working well

  • Therefore, in order to take credit for the recovery, there had to be some major intervention, hard evidence of action, on the part of the administration somewhere near the inflection point.

    FORBES: Obama Bets On The Business Cycle - Again

  • Finally, on 9 November 1991, President Bush actually announced that the United States would take some concrete action to punish Serbian aggression.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The lawyers added that some senior officers could potentially take individual legal action and also recommended that a number of emails be reported to police on the grounds of harassment.

    BBC: Leicester

  • Some residents in Norton, near Malton, said police had been knocking on their doors urging them to take action.

    BBC: Water seeping through Norton flood defence wall

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