1.   Not bad for a graduate in literature and one who normally took evasive action at the sight of a screwdriver.

2.   The occasional sound of small-arms fire punctuated the lunchtime action at the company command post.

3.   The meeting concluded that the well-being of children requires political action at the highest level.

4.   Action at the Community level should happen only when proper and necessary.

5.   The right action at this stage is to play a small Club from both hands on the King of Clubs.

6.   The output of the southern fields was exported through the terminals on the Gulf which were to be demolished by enemy action at the outbreak of war.

7.   Minimalism can also be seen in action at La Rserve in Fulham and the Sterling hotels at Heathrow and Gatwick.

8.   In the first place this meant action at the United Nations.