1.   Adultery rather than years of abusiveness towards his wife prompted the church board to take disciplinary action against her husband.

2.   America is not ruling out military action against Iran.

3.   American soldiers are going into action against the Mujahadin.

4.   And his extrajudicial comments disparaging Microsoft and its officers lent an air of bias to his action against the company.

5.   And it left open the fourth option, to step up military action against Hanoi and otherwise escalate the war.

6.   Bowaters told the plaintiffs and they brought an action against officers of the unions to which the drivers and loaders belonged.

7.   Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus.

8.   Existing companies-bookstores, for example-are taking defensive action against online retailers.