Sentence examples for while not acting from inspiring English sources

Dowd asked Risen how the Obama administration could use the Espionage Act to imprison reporters and whistleblowers while not acting on the acknowledged use of torture by the CIA on terrorism suspects and the same agency spying on the US Senate.

While not acting, Weaver was active in green politics.

"You obviously always want your candidate to look presidential while not acting too presidential," said Ed Rollins, a longtime Republican strategist.

Mr. Dodd, a Democrat seeking a third term, sharply criticized the Bush Administration for offering aid and trade concessions to Russia, China and Mexico while not acting to end the recession at home.

In a carefully worded attack, Dr Blix said intelligence communities were too ready to believe the "tales" of defectors, and the British prime minister and US president, while not acting in bad faith, were too preoccupied with spin.

An investigation of the impacts of increased fixed charges, minimum bills and residential demand charges on PV and non-PV customer bills suggests that minimum bills more accurately capture utilities' revenue requirement than fixed charges, while not acting as a disincentive to efficiency or negatively impacting low-income customers.

Trade unions are desperate not to lose their base and are not so much leading as following, with the risk of behaving irresponsibly, while still not acting radically enough for the extremists.

He saw that drama as inseparable from the behavior of the actors while acting and not acting, the behavior of the crew while filming and not filming, and, in the case of location shooting, whatever else might be happening in the vicinity of the cameras.

As with the minuscule political reforms, letting Malhas compete in London gives the impression that the Saudis have appreciated the spirit of the Arab Spring while in fact not acting upon it.

In other words: the interventionists worried about the morality of not acting, while the anti-interventionists were concerned with the moral consequences of acting.

And while the cost of not acting on climate change could be even higher (roughly equal to one-third the entire economy, according to one report), spending on such scale is daunting to many individuals who'd like to be part of the solution.