1.   Sure Style acted after a rash of complaints about salesmen terrorising potential customers, refusing to leave their homes until they had agreed to buy double glazing.

2.   Bayliss acted after a series of winter storms had struck the U.S. capital.

3.   Bingaman brought the case against Microsoft after the Federal Trade Commission declined to act after an investigation of several years.

4.   A Justice report said NASD failed to act after learning that brokers were bullying colleagues who tried to trade at competitive prices.

5.   Ailes said Murdoch had acted after Time Warner, last month, irresponsibly and suddenly backed out of a crucial deal to put the channel on its cable systems.

6.   Budig acted after an investigation into allegations that Belle threw baseballs at a photographer before a game in Cleveland last month.

7.   But he also acted after concluding that his fractious Likud coalition was not prepared to follow through on the Wye agreement.

8.   But now, with the committee scheduled to act after the vote for speaker, they will have to decide without that help.

9.   Canada acted after being held up to international ridicule for its reluctance to rescue its military equipment.

10.   Canada acted after receiving a request from the authorities in the Netherlands asking it to extradite Tobbichi.