The idea must precede action and the action must precede results.

Generally speaking, I think that a Congress should not precede action.

Of course thought must precede action, and, furthermore, must accompany action if action is not to run wild.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, he was the type who must precede action with a boast; a bite with a growl.

Emotional conviction must precede action.

To the second question the preceding action had offered no definitive answer.

But actions of thought precede actions of word or outward deed.

Of what use to the preceding action, and to the present?

It is happily to be solved as a result of the wives' preceding action.

Through a wide land was that numbness which precedes action.

The result; that which flows from a preceding action.

That instant gave Duane a power to read in his enemy's eyes the thought that preceded action.

Deliberation is the alternation of different appetites; the final, victorious one which immediately precedes action is called will.

Dorsal striatal neurons exhibited long ramps in activity that preceded actions by several seconds, and may reflect upcoming actions.

And as nature precedes action, to which power is related, therefore habit is put before power as a species of quality.