31.   Samaranch said the IOC was not able to take action to stop such abuses before this year because no one ever provided the committee with names of offending members.

32.   The action simply stops for a few minutes as the characters burst into song, tablas and sitars throb on the soundtrack and dancing choruses materialize out of nowhere.

33.   The action would stop short of authorizing the use of force.

34.   The apartheid government, which knew an epidemic was brewing, took no systematic action to stop it.

35.   The Navy takes no action to stop this improper and outrageous behavior on the part of its best and brightest officers.

36.   The United States effectively blocked the U.N. Security Council from taking significant military action to stop the killing.

37.   Then the game-clock operator screwed up and action stopped while he struggled to make time stand still.

38.   There are no whistles, but the action stops when the kid speaks.

39.   They said the government should have seen the warning signals and taken action to stop the bloodshed.

40.   U.S. officials have sometimes been reluctant to demand that the Saudis take stronger action to stop such private financing.