The phrase "actions and omissions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal, ethical, or philosophical contexts to refer to both what someone does and what they fail to do.
Example: "The court must consider both the actions and omissions of the defendant when making its ruling."
Alternatives: "deeds and neglect" or "acts and failures".
"The U.S. through its actions and omissions has helped to create the current conditions in Iraq.
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.
Of the modern world's serious trouble spots, only Korea and Kashmir owe little to the actions and omissions of the men of 1919.
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.
In a speech, he said the crisis arose from inept actions and omissions by people in charge of the banking sector and the economy.
Those who deny this logical implication must drive a hard conceptual and moral line between action and omission.
In reply, Clarke (2010a) has argued that in cases of intentional omission the agent usually does have an intention not to act that plays an important causal role, and he has identified various parallels between intentional actions and intentional omissions.
In particular, we balanced for the possible effects of dopamine on both movement and motor vigor (requiring both action and action omission), and hedonically salient (negatively valenced) versus nonspecific prediction errors (by employing conditions where reversals were signaled by unpredicted losses or null events).
During the emergence of contemporary bioethics, decisions to forego life-sustaining treatments were often framed by doctors, lawyers and the public at large in terms of well-worn distinctions between ordinary vs. extraordinary treatments, actions vs. omissions, and killing vs. letting die.
