The phrase "acts of omissions" is not correct in standard English; the correct term is "acts of omission." You can use it when discussing failures to act or neglecting to perform a required duty or responsibility.
Example: "The committee's report highlighted several acts of omission that contributed to the project's failure."
Alternatives: "failures to act" or "neglectful actions."
In some cases, Vick's sins of commission may be matched by willfully blind consumers' acts of omission.
And then there are the many acts of omission, such as when soldiers could have killed captives without negative repercussions but decided not to.
'Section 307 authorizes the Attorney General of the United States to sue the corporation or any railroad to prevent acts of omission or commission in violation of this legislation.
What's the difference between acts of omission and of commission in the case of US authorities in Iraq Iraqq war logs, 23 October)?
Perhaps the Myanmar example is anomalous in that it involves a natural disaster and a malefactor government's acts of omission, not commission.
In her debut novel Acts of Omission (John Murray, £14.99), former BBC journalist Terry Stiastny proves herself a skilful prose stylist and a connoisseur of telling details.
Given a relation involving in its existence a duty of care irrespective of a contract, a tort may result as well from acts of omission as of commission in the fulfillment of the duty thus recognized by law.
The plaintiffs argue that climate change endangers these rights and that the government defendants violated plaintiffs' rights through their acts of omission and breach of their duty to protect the Colombian Amazon.
There is, of course, a distinction between acts of omission and commission, but the court of appeal's twin assertions of female autonomy and the indivisibility of mother and foetus undermine the logic of the criminal law.
Political history book of the year went to David Kynaston's Modernity Britain Book Two, a look at the years 1959-1962, while the political fiction gong was won by Terry Stiastny's tale of state secrets gone missing, Acts of Omission.
