1.   In order to sue, you have to prove that the company was acting in bad faith.

2.   The company had acted in good faith.

3.   The court took the view that the company had acted unreasonably.

4.   The company acted correctly in sacking him.

5.   The company was acting in collusion with manufacturers to inflate prices.

6.   The mortgage company had acted with forbearance, only taking them to court as a last resort.

7.   And since tobacco companies here act principally as distributors, the industry has no local lobbying power to create opposition within the government, he argued.

8.   And when companies act on that thought . . . well, you get the picture.

9.   At first, the company acted as a broker that put sellers of used IBM mainframes together with potential buyers.