But today's action keeps the issue alive while all sides work for a compromise.

He maintained that such drastic action kept the crime rate down.

This action keeps going around the table until each player has called or folded his hand.

It's important that all the action keeps going in the direction of his room.

We begin to feel that our actions of circumstances can keep us from being used by God, but that's not true.

The action kept cutting from one scene to another.

Affirmative action, he argued, "has kept America thinking in racial terms."

The company hopes the legal action will keep any rules change from taking effect that quickly.

Quick action by other cast members, who moved to support her, kept the audience in ignorance.

Both actions probably kept others from dying, rescue officials said.