Sentence examples for state of inaction from inspiring English sources

With the Senate so frequently in a state of inaction these days, it is common for long, lazy quorum calls interrupted by short bursts of activity or speechifying.

It is often, by the impracticability of obtaining the concurrence of the necessary number of votes, kept in a state of inaction.

ALBANY — A federal judge, citing lawmakers' "current state of inaction" in redrawing New York's political map, recommended on Monday that the state's redistricting process be turned over to a court-appointed special master.

"It is time for us to move into a new era that will lead the nation from a state of inaction to one of positive confrontation against any aggressor who violates the sovereignty and sanctity of countries and murders our brethren wherever they are," the letter read.

To snooze is to remain, for just a few precious moments, suspended in the blissful state of inaction.

The worst thing you could do is let low rates on savings accounts lull you into a state of inaction.

Philip Shaw, an economist at City bank Investec, said: "This state of policy inaction is about to change.

What our system has done is suppress people into a state of ignorance and inaction," Ms Dlamini says.

Vice President Dick Cheney stated explicitly: "The risks of inaction are far greater than the risk of action".

At a recent event hosted by the Climate Reality Project, Maggie Fox, president and CEO of the organization founded by Al Gore, stated that the "cost of inaction was higher than action".

A Texas Tribune investigation has uncovered years of inaction by state officials while money flowed to tutoring companies, delivering few academic results and flouting state regulations.