By not speaking out, they say, Mr. Putin has tacitly endorsed actions that seem devised to send a public message that there are limits to challenging the state and to consorting with the potential enemy.
In public announcements regarding anthrax, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) emphasized the overall low risk to the population but also endorsed actions to minimize personal risk.
The 12,060 junior doctors gave the fullest backing to strike action, with 92% endorsing action short of a strike and 82% – the largest majority – saying they were prepared to strike.
Congress in recent decades has voted to authorize military operations without declaring war — in the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 and the resolutions endorsing action against Iraq in 1991 and 2002.
As recently as Sunday, Hunt tried to dissuade junior doctors from striking in a Sunday Telegraph article that asked them to pull back from the "barricades" and refuse to endorse action that would put patients' safety at risk.
The Times reported on March 13: "American officials also said that the Arab League would have to do more than endorse action - it would have to participate in it, too.
For example, consumers and carers were more likely to endorse actions which would have first aiders encouraging people (including children) to talk about what happened, to express their emotions, and to validate those emotions.
On the one hand the practice of a general practitioner being asked to endorse actions initiated by a receptionist (which seems common although not universal) contains potential for serious errors.
Among 17,561 GPs who voted, 79% backed industrial action short of a strike and 63% endorsed strike action.
