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The protesters criticized the administration's inaction on environmental issues.
We must consider the consequences of continued inaction.
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Its support for Gazans has won it praise among Lebanon’s Sunnis and the wider Arab world, where people contrast the group’s activism with the inaction of their own governments.
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
Federal inaction has also created more political space for state officials to act.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2024
Tactical alliances would hamper the far right from implementing a fiercely anti-immigration, pro-working-class domestic agenda, but likely leave Parliament locked in political paralysis and damaging inaction.
—Carlo Angerer, NBC News, 7 July 2024
These social and economic interpretations of the founders’ grotesque inaction on slavery are certainly correct.
—Eli Merritt, TIME, 4 July 2024
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
Federal inaction has also created more political space for state officials to act.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2024
Tactical alliances would hamper the far right from implementing a fiercely anti-immigration, pro-working-class domestic agenda, but likely leave Parliament locked in political paralysis and damaging inaction.
—Carlo Angerer, NBC News, 7 July 2024
These social and economic interpretations of the founders’ grotesque inaction on slavery are certainly correct.
—Eli Merritt, TIME, 4 July 2024
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“Inaction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inaction. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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inaction
noun
in·ac·tion
(ˈ)in-ˈak-shən 
: lack of action or activity : idleness
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