inaction

Example Sentences

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The inaction has failed to address an onslaught of demand for help in a rapidly gentrifying city.

From Washington Post

In one rare instance in which a tower was blocked, it happened only because of the FCC's inaction — and only after the tower's developer had already damaged a sensitive site.

From Salon

Then there’s the Puerto Rican choreographer Nibia Pastrana Santiago, who is best known for her manifesto “The Lazy Dancer,” a kind of call to inaction for an especially exhausted public.

From New York Times

Led by former Trump budget director Russ Vought, these advisers have maintained that the costs of inaction on the nation’s $31 trillion debt override the need to ensure the U.S. can pay all its bills.

From Washington Post

The report, however, also pointed to the Fed's vice chair for supervision at the time, without naming him, for creating what it said was a culture of weak and lax supervision that favored inaction.

From Reuters