Sentence examples for omitting to do from inspiring English sources

When a physician pulls a feeding tube, is she "merely omitting" to do something, which would presumably be licit, or is she actually doing something, i.e., removing the tube, which would presumably be illicit?

Physicians often justified their actions (e.g., withdrawing a ventilator or feeding tube) on the ground that a particular treatment constituted an "extraordinary means;" and in response to worries that withholding or withdrawal a tube might kill the patient, they often claimed that they were "merely omitting" to do something, rather than doing something illicit.

The Surety Company was not led thereby to do or to omit to do anything.

Thither only two British states sent hostages; the rest omitted to do so.

Neither the justice nor the policy of what sovereignty may do or omit to do can be judged from partial views or particular instances.

Both stories look at a child's experience of loss, square in the eye, and then does what real-life often omits to do: fix it with a broad brushstroke of joy.

In the end, it may turn out that the grocer's daughter who encouraged us all to make loadsamoney omitted to do so for herself, and certainly not on the Blair scale.

Thither no more than two of the British states sent hostages; the remainder omitted to do so.

Great dead ball player and can whip a decent early cross, something that Nani at times omits to do.

I have observed, that gentlemen suppose, that the general legislature will do every mischief they possibly can, and that they will omit to do every thing good which they are authorised to do.

"Criminal charges" are defined in this study as a written accusation charging that an individual named has been accused of committing an act or omitted to do something that is punishable by law.