To do something, he believed, even if imperfect, was always preferable to doing nothing.
She has been volunteering at a nature center, where she is assigned to pick up trash, a task she said was preferable to doing nothing.
Her families, they argue, have been corrupted by a benefits system that rewards teenagers for getting pregnant, penalises parents who live together, and makes unemployment preferable to work – so nothing can change until the welfare state does.
T-Mobile should realize that 30% of a vibrant mobile application market, a market that would drive more handset sales, is preferable to 45% of nothing.
A big fee would be preferable to losing him for nothing next summer.
For now, plodding progress with the occasional stepping-on of toes is preferable to the all-or-nothing risks of a post-Seattle round.
Doing nothing is preferable to a Washington solution, the argument goes, because lawmakers so often compound the problems they set out to solve.
The admonishment "Don't just do something; stand there!" reminds us that we should stop and think before we act, that there are many instances in which doing nothing is greatly preferable to doing something.
That's better than nothing but it's probably preferable to provide opportunities for unstructured or child-led play outdoors.
He says that his own plan for entitlements will be different from Ryan's but that Ryan's is preferable to Obama's because Obama's is "doing nothing".
In the meantime, the consensus reform bill now chugging through Congress is surely preferable to the alternative, which is for Congress to do nothing.
