For,before his inauguration, southern states finally acted on their threats.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

So much more important than historical verifiability is the conviction of the ancient Israelites who received and venerated these traditions, and developed them, and embellished them, that God had once acted on their behalf, rescuing them from bondage, binding them to himself in an eternal covenant.

无比史料证明更重要的是,古代以色列人坚定的信仰,他们接受并且崇敬那些传统，将它们发扬，美化它们，认为上帝曾为了他们而行动，将他们从奴役中解救，在永恒的契约中将他们与上帝联系在一起。

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The southern states had finally acted on their earlier threats.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Guiteau is believed to have acted on his own.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

But ministry spokesman Chun Hae Sung tells reporters North Korea quickly acted on other aspects of its threat to cut all communications ties with the South.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

I could see Powell on the ground. I did not even think about what to do, I just acted.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

They said the government acted because of fears that the crisis would cause a run on the banks.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

But Steven Slater is in a lot of legal trouble and details of exactly what happened on that JetBlue flight and how he acted are still up in the air.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

On Jerusalem's busy Ben Yehuda Street, a man says the Israeli military acted in the interest of protecting its citizens when it intercepted the flotilla.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

who has become one of the most prominent Republican critics of the Obama White House, said the Bush administration acted within legal guidelines to keep America safe after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been and this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29