Leading Hong Kong activists have criticised the lack of intervention by David Cameron following Beijing's weekend crackdown on protesters.
And western intervention (Iraq), or possibly lack of intervention (Syria), has made a bloody mess of the Middle East, where dictators still thrive.
Chapman had earlier told the tribunal the community has "high expectations" of the medical profession, and suggested Nitschke's lack of intervention with Brayley did not meet them.
The lack of intervention in Rwanda was widely seen as a moral calamity for which politicians, including Bill Clinton, have apologized.
This disagreement between two high-profile ministers — and Ms. Merkel's lack of intervention — are indicative of widespread unease about quotas.
The problems lie with the lack of intervention guidelines, which opens the door for various interpretations of screening results based on the doctor's personality, and with the fear of litigation, which results in exorbitant and in most cases unjustified fees.
But given the party's lack of intervention in an overheated, under-regulated economy almost perversely dependent on property transactions, and the gigantic scale of the debt now facing a small country, the accusations are legitimate.
The academy's report cited the relative lack of intervention provided to blacks for a range of diseases, while pointing out that there are some procedures — measures that may speak of disregard — that blacks are much more likely to undergo, among them amputation.
Combined with a lack of intervention from police and increasing lawlessness, the combination was explosive: " [Looters] quickly see that police cannot control the situation, which leads to a sort of adrenalin-fuelled euphoria – suddenly you are in control and there is nothing anyone can do".
Anger has also risen in the Palestinian camps over the United Nations force's perceived lack of intervention in preventing Israeli forces from firing on crowds who headed to the Israeli border earlier this month to commemorate the Nakba, or catastrophe, a day that marks for Palestinians the creation of Israel in 1948.
"Our director said people in the agency were personally aware of the situation for many years but they couldn't actually get them when they were there or apprehend the parents," he said, attributing the lack of intervention to "a combination of bad luck and unfortunate timing".
