The captain had been acting very erratic since his mysterious phone call.

When ships' captains had to go ashore and act as diplomats.

The captain and crew are not acting like men on a suicide mission.

But however confident she and the captain might act for the crew, they both knew that the Lynx would probably not survive the battle.

They would lose their advantage if the captain did not act.

"You know," he said more softly, "even the captain can't act without the security officer's approval."

And her captain isn't acting like a man who only wants to play safe.

The captain was the Police Commissioner and acted as public prosecutor.

DeLong described the way the captain had acted toward her in this instance and that.

Had the captain not acted, those twenty-seven people would have died from exposure to a vacuum.