delayed-action

Definitions

Examples

• While this deferred action is controversial in the United States, in Mexico, what Obama did is universally popular.

• This is where much of the action will be for anti-LGBT groups.

• In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.

• The possibility that the same outcome could happen another way -- namely a guy asks me out -- keeps me from taking action.

• Like Sony Entertainment's The Interview, political pressure delayed the arrivale of foreign films in Korea.

• Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

• He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.

• The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom.

• Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.

• The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.