Synonyms for act on
act on

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1. pursue, follow up on, act onverb

   carry further or advance

   "Can you act on this matter soon?"

   Synonyms:
   engage, pursue, quest for, prosecute, quest after, follow up on, follow, go after

2. act onverb

   regulate one's behavior in accordance with certain information, ideas, or advice

   "The Founding Fathers acted on certain moral principles"

   Synonyms:
   follow up on, pursue

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1. Frank McKenzie:

   I just didn't find that there was a causative link there. It worried me, and we take extreme force protection measures all the time in Afghanistan, you see a lot of indicators. Many of them are troubling ; many of them you act on. But in this case, there just wasn't enough there. I sent the intelligence guys back to continue to dig on it. And I believe they're continuing to dig right now.

2. Jamil Jaffer:

   We have voluntarily walked back some of our laws, and I think in a heightened threat environment, if you want the intelligence community to collect and act on threat information, you need to give them appropriate capabilities.

3. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey:

   These federal agencies don't have the ability to act on Attorney General Patrick Morrisey own without getting a clear statement from Congress, if you have something that's major, you have to make sure Congress steps in, and Congress gets to make these major decisions of the day.

4. Security Bureau:

   In conducting any operation, the police will act on the basis of actual circumstances and according to the law.

5. Tracey Lomax:

   At that time, it was kind of far-fetched. We heard it, but we didn’t act on it, i’m not going to say it was hard to believe, but it just didn’t apply to us at the time because my sister was at home with us.