A lower population impact than previous pandemics, however, is not a justification for public health inaction.
A lower population impact than previous pandemics is not a justification for public health inaction when death, serious illness, and admission to hospital can be prevented.
When labeling climate protection as a global public good, then inaction on climate measures can be viewed as international prisoners' dilemma.
The claim in today's opinion indicated that giving elected officials "sole authority to decide" whether to defend an initiative in court might "allow public officials, through inaction, effectively to annul initiatives that they dislike," just isn't correct.
But rather than accepting the need for reforms, the industry fights on, clinging to the hope that a more sympathetic president will restore its privileged access to taxpayer money, campaign contributions will continue to buy congressional inaction, public scrutiny will die down, and bad actors in the sector can go back to their predatory ways.
In sum, there are sound reasons to highlight the inaction of public actors whose political choices (strategy, public policy) fluctuated according to the nature of the international discourse on biofuels, the solicitation of foreign donors, and changes in oil prices.
You'd imagine Clegg would loathe facing a public whom he – through inaction, inability or inclination – is seen as having betrayed.
Reid hasn't shown much stomach for forcing Republican filibusters, instead letting bill after bill die quietly while the public blames Congress for inaction.
The Costs of Inaction In public discussion, the climate-change skeptics have clearly been gaining ground over the past couple of years, even though the odds have been looking good lately that 2010 could be the warmest year on record.
But several factors — including Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the surge in oil and electricity prices that followed and public outrage at government inaction over skyrocketing bills — got lawmakers' attention, and they finally acted this year.
