Sentence examples for action and omission from inspiring English sources

The distinction between action and omission falls apart.

Those who deny this logical implication must drive a hard conceptual and moral line between action and omission.

The interview is the first time Francis has explained the reasoning behind both his actions and omissions.

The President said ordinary citizens shouldering the burden of "actions and omissions" want to see those responsible punished.

There is reason to believe that a number of Cabinet ministers are genuinely horrified by what they've learned about the actions and omissions of the last government.

Of the modern world's serious trouble spots, only Korea and Kashmir owe little to the actions and omissions of the men of 1919.

In a speech, he said the crisis arose from inept actions and omissions by people in charge of the banking sector and the economy.

Metropolitan police chief Sir Bernard Hogapologisedologised "unreservedly" after accepting that the force's "actions and omissions" had put the family of an innocent woman, shot and paralysed by police in 1985, through "years of suffering".

Hogan-Howe said the delay meant Groce was no longer alive to hear the police's contrition, but addressing her children, he said: "I am sorry for the years of suffering which our actions and omissions caused to your family".

On Monday his younger brother, Mahamuud Diini, 24, who lives in Birmingham, told The Independent: "I believe that the MI5 officers by their actions and omissions were complicit in the detention, abuse and torture my brother suffered in Egypt".

So, minimally, they are responsible for such actions and omissions.