He said the terms of his inquiry were to examine actions - or inactions - of organisations rather than individuals against a "background of the most appalling" care provided to large numbers of patients at Stafford Hospital.
This can lead to many of the inactions that we later regret.
It added: "The charade of hypocritical condemnation from the local political classes does nothing to resolve the issues created by their inactions".
Lewis received a letter that read, "Your actions and inactions brought embarrassment, suspicion, scorn, and disrepute upon APS" — Atlanta Public Schools.
The modern idea of a universal standard of decency — that what goes on in some obscure country might be your and my business — still holds power over millions of people, even if their actions or inactions betray it.
Likewise, we are a long way from constructing a robot that can fully anticipate the consequences of any of its actions (or inactions).
Fukuyama thinks that we won the Cold War mainly because an unworkable system reached its inevitable point of collapse, helped by the actions and inactions of Mikhail Gorbachev; that, apart from oratory and some funding of pro-democracy groups, we did little in the way of intervention; and that we ought to thank our stars and decline to draw grand policy lessons.
But then what to make of her inactions?
EX-PREMIER OF ICELAND CONVICTED OF ONE CHARGE IN '08 CRISIS Geir H. Haarde "was the first politician to face a court over his actions — or, in this case, inactions — during the financial crisis as three of the nation's largest banks collapsed," Ms. Werdigier reported.
It is a pathetic attempt to avoid responsibility for its own inactions.
Instead, he said, its purpose was to fight the perception that the actions, or inactions, of a handful of men defined the university.
