While he was treated well there, he said, "the U.S. government was not proactive enough".
Sometimes the blame is shifted onto the excluded for being paranoid or not proactive enough.
Although the Olympic authorities were not proactive enough in dealing with bigotry, when they were called upon, they, along with the police and the courts, acted decisively.
It is also true that the boomers haven't been proactive enough on climate change – indeed, Willetts says too little about this – but it is hard to argue that they can be singled out on these grounds.
In fact, the office of the state comptroller issued a report in August criticizing the Health Department's medical conduct office for being "not proactive" enough in seeking out cases of medical misconduct for review.
However, he said he agreed with Desmond, the Express Newspapers proprietor, because the PCC was not proactive enough on the McCann story, which cost the newspaper group £550,000 in a 2008 libel payout.
Is that going to mean ultimately broadcast TV has to squeeze down into less and less to allow mobile to grow?" He thinks that broadcasters have previously "perhaps let the mobile sector lead the debate", by not being proactive enough in arguing their case.
But while the PFA and the FA tried to get to grips with a historic crisis that threatens to spiral beyond their control, there were fresh questions over whether they were sufficiently prepared or had been proactive enough previously in providing a support network for those affected.
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England, meanwhile, were simply not proactive enough in trying to devise a way of getting Agar out.
