What is "actions"

Usage examples of "actions".

This would leave us fighting with many, if not all, of our allies and trade partners over actions that would clearly contravene our WTO commitments, important bilateral treaties, and our entire free-trade philosophy.

Then there would be the costs of lost trade as a result of either retaliations for the secondary sanctions or similar unfair trade practices by other countries, which would use our actions to justify their own.

His actions over thirty years in power and the limited evidence we have about his thinking leave us little reason to believe that he can be deterred once he acquires nuclear weapons.

Saddam seems to have taken these moves as warnings of more lethal actions to come.

Instead, it now appears that his actions were meant to deter an American counterattack--like a blowfish, he was puffing himself up to look big and tough, to try to convince Washington that if we wanted to retake Kuwait from him we were going to have a terrific fight on our hands.

Iraq policy at the end of the Gulf War: its actions were predicted on the certainty that Saddam would fall from power.

The Security Council reacted by passing another resolution that did impose the travel restrictions and threatened additional actions if Iraq did not shape up.

The idea behind this policy was that since there was no political will to do what was necessary to actually bring about regime change, the United States would take the aggressive actions necessary to keep Saddam contained and also pursue some aspects of regime change in hope of getting lucky or at least keeping Saddam on the defensive.

The Iraqi regime is the principal culprit in that its actions and policy decisions caused much--probably most--of the dislocations that produced the disaster.

AIDS or famine in Africa, the humanitarian crisis in Iraq was entirely man-made, the result of actions taken by the government of Iraq and the United Nations, which knew that its actions could have an adverse impact on the Iraqi people.

If he is uncomfortable with foreign terrorist groups because he cannot be certain how they will act and how their actions will affect his own security, this point is ten times more salient when weapons of mass destruction are involved.

But none of the Arab states likes to suppress its people, and they worry that such heavy-handed actions might someday spark an outright revolt against the regime.

Nor is there reason to believe that they would agree to actions designed only to maintain the military embargo.

They publicly say that they recognize the need for the military sanctions, but their actions often speak otherwise.

As best we understand his thinking, he does appear to construct means-ends chains by which he believes his actions will achieve his goals.