do-nothing policy
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A do-nothing policy would lead to a reduction in lending of €4.5tn.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2012
The worst-case alternative may be even more painful to contemplate: a do-nothing policy that spawns a financial crisis driven by a run on the pound and sharply higher interest rates.
From New York Times • May 3, 2010
They pointed to the dirty and rutted streets, the antiquated purchasing methods, the confusing street signs, the inadequate health and police and fire services as examples of Stapleton's do-nothing policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
His view�widely welcomed at present�that Government should do less and that national thrift is in order could begin to seem to many people like a do-nothing policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Robert Peel is not more correct in his so bitterly reproached "do-nothing" policy about Irish repeal, than in his "do-nothing" emphatic policy about Corn-law repeal.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
