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been inaction
noun
Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.
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Exact(5)
The record up until now: From Obama's side, there's been inaction.
The option tried up to now has been inaction: It does not work.
When he announced the invasion of Cambodia in 1970, Nixon declared, "The time has come for action!" And Laurence thought, "As if five years of bombing and killing Vietnamese has been inaction".
A significant failure of United States policies over the last 40 years since the first OPEC embargo has been inaction on our part to reduce demand and as a consequence expectations.
The most common response by governments to the problem of unproven AIDS treatments has been inaction.
Similar(52)
That is inaction.
The response, almost immediately, was inaction.
"Our biggest enemy is inaction," he said.
If there is one thing Spitzer dislikes, it is inaction.
This means that the most likely result is inaction.
Refusing to pay a tax, for instance, is "inaction" that is clearly subject to government regulation.
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