The phrase "actions or omissions" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or formal contexts to refer to both things that are done (actions) and things that are not done (omissions).
Example: "The defendant is liable for any damages resulting from their actions or omissions during the incident."
Alternatives: "deeds or failures" or "acts or inactions".
Persons have to take responsibility for their individual actions and for circumstances they could change through such actions or omissions.
On reflection, we can see that we ought to blame the racists only for their actions or omissions, not for the attitudes themselves over which they have no control.
Now that our basic human capabilities are slowly becoming matters of deliberate choice rather than the random results of the genetic lottery, we suddenly become morally responsible for possible actions or omissions available to us.
So many actions, or omissions, by the DOE have left a strong impression of bias -- of a stacked deck by the DOE targeting just "for profit" career colleges, ignoring or distorting facts and data, choosing non-transparency over transparency, and an unavoidable impression of anti-business, anti private sector animus.
Article 85 of the Greek Constitution states: "The members of the Cabinet and the Undersecretaries shall be collectively responsible for general Government policy, and each of them [severally] for the actions or omissions within his area of responsibility according to the provisions of statutes on the liability of Ministers".
Developing thinking about practical experience (either one's own, or in a vicarious sense) and striving for justifications or actions – or omissions – forms the essence of ethical deliberation.
The report criticized Mr. Lepore and Mr. Paladino, accusing them of "negligent conduct" and of "contributing to the accident by action or omission".
"We continue to believe that it is a failure involving many contributory factors and that any action or omission on the part of the driver was only one such factor".
"For the occasions past and present, when sons and daughters of the Catholic Church have sinned by action or omission against their Orthodox brothers and sisters, may the Lord grant us the forgiveness we beg of him," the pope said.
At school, he memorized the Baltimore catechism (which included such instruction as "What is actual sin? Actual sin is any willful thought, desire, word, action, or omission contrary to the law of God").
She must try — as Philip Roth did in "The Human Stain," a book that was seemingly prompted by the Broyard story but goes unmentioned here — to understand the choices that he made, whether by action or omission.
