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Discover LudwigThe phrase "action or forbearance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to refer to either taking a specific action or refraining from doing something.
Example: "The contract stipulates that the party must provide either action or forbearance in response to the agreement."
Alternatives: "conduct or abstention" or "deed or restraint".
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The new or amended legal rule gives judges, other officials, and citizens a new or amended reason for action (or forbearance).
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The worry here is that Locke holds that the objects of volition are actions or forbearances, so the man would need to be described as willing to forbear from falling.
At no point does Locke offer an account of performing actions or forbearances freely, as if freedom were a way of performing an action or a way of forbearing to perform an action.
The induced 'action or forbearance' works an estoppel against the promisor.
The induced 'action or forbearance' is the consideration for the promise.
When the induced 'action or forbearance' is begun, a promise to complete is implied, and we have an enforceable bilateral contract, the implied promise to complete being the consideration for the original promise.
His fatalism, or forbearance, can be parlayed into something like martyrdom.
Default can be avoided by applying for deferment or forbearance before missing a payment.
A current standstill, or forbearance, agreement had been scheduled to expire on Friday and would have initiated a bankruptcy filing.
Most of the collection's characters move through events with a resignation or forbearance rare in contemporary fiction.
Federal Loans Defer or Forbearance All federal loans have a grace period of six months after graduation.
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