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How to use the word inaction in a Sentence?

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This Texas lawsuit is a clear and present danger to patients and providers all across the country. Washington will not sit by idly and risk the devastating consequences of inaction, washington is a pro-choice state, and no Texas judge will order us otherwise.

Jay Inslee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This IPCC report is both a blistering condemnation of major emitters’ inaction and a sound blueprint for a much safer and more equitable world.

Ani Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These regular, uniquely American tragedies must be a call to action for our political leaders. We need decisive change to US gun laws and regulations. The cost of political inaction on preventing gun violence is increasingly, tragically clear.

Kris Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Americans are tired of fearing if they or their families will be the next victims of a mass shooting. Our children are tired of being told to ‘run, hide, and fight,’ these regular, uniquely American tragedies must be a call to action for our political leaders. We need decisive change to US gun laws and regulations. The cost of political inaction on preventing gun violence is increasingly, tragically clear.

Kris Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is long overdue for President Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency and relinquish the emergency powers that he just renewed again, president Biden’s inaction and lack of transparency on this are unacceptable.

Brett Guthrie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Top Stock brokers are able to plunder the investors money because of inaction by regulator SEBI's top directors year after year

Maneesh Nariwal

added by manaiwalneesh_1
1 year ago

President Biden's inaction at Some Republican candidates southern border continues putting the lives of Texans — and Americans — at risk and is overwhelming Some Republican candidates communities.

Greg Abbott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Being the person in charge, she should've made sure that school was safe, and she failed at her job -- bottom line. It goes to show you how Uvalde works : They will do anything to protect themselves and forget the children, no one wants to be responsible for their actions and inaction, and it makes me sick.

Javier Cazares

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And confronted with this global emergency, what we're doing with our inaction and failing to walk through the door and stop the killing is not typical of what we are capable of as human beings, we do have the solutions, and I think these extreme events that are getting steadily worse and more severe are really beginning to change minds.

Paul Marotta/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ukraine and (the) West's inaction on these issues paved the way for Putin to quite literally weaponize them against Ukraine in an attempt to justify his aggression, while it's correct to point (out that) Ukraine's far-right has minimal electoral support, they (Azov) have enjoyed near impunity for violence aimed at minorities, were unchecked in their efforts to build influence in military and security forces, and have been normalized by Ukraine's senior leaders.

Oleksiy Kuzmenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No consequence of right action is graver than the consequence of inaction.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

The bottom line is our country exposed our own veterans to poison for years, and we knew about it, and we did not act with urgency and appropriateness, and therefore, we've lost men and women who served this country. They've died out of our inaction.

Jon Stewart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm the only person in the race... whose feet are bloody from walking over the glass of governments inaction, it's important that I win so working people in Pennsylvania don't just have a spokesperson for their concerns, don't just have folks cosplaying concern for them, but have an actual working person in that room.

Malcolm Kenyatta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The existential threat to human existence as we know it, and every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think the evidence will speak for itself and if we determine that criminal actions were taken, or criminal acts were taken because of inaction... that will be forwarded from The Select Committee and( in) the appropriate manner to the Department of Justice, but that's exactly why we're conducting this investigation to find out all the facts, to determine what we can do in the future to prevent something like this from happening and... hold people accountable who are responsible.

Elaine Luria

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They share fundamental values. They're longtime friends. That has not changed, what's most on the President's mind is the risk of inaction.

Jen Psaki

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the challenge of our collective lifetime -- the existential threat to human existence as we know it. And every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases. So let this be the moment that we answer history's call here in Glasgow.

The President

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The courts inaction is not a determination that the six-week ban is constitutional, these kinds of emergency disputes are not a conclusive resolution of the merits of a case.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think it's kind of insulting when they're like,' Lauren Hogg're an old soul.' Yeah, I'm an old soul because of the amount of trauma that has been caused because of Lauren Hogg inaction, it's the same thing when people are like,' Oh, you're here for a reason.' I know that's meant with good intentions, but it also feels uncomfortable.

Lauren Hogg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Passing the BCPSA will make quick progress on an issue that has suffered government inaction for far too long and will empower The US to answer important questions like how many tigers live here, where The US are, when The US are sold and traded, and what happens to The US valuable parts when The US die.

Leigh Henry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The time has come for the European Union to take action. Silence and inaction under whatever pretext will only embolden the mullahs’ regime to continue its crimes and terrorism.

Maryam Rajavi

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The officers are angry, and I don't blame them, the entire executive team failed Capitol Police officers, and they must be held accountable. Their inaction cost one officer his life and Capitol Police officers have almost 140 responding officers injured. They have a lot to atone for.

Gus Papathanasiou

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It’s an American tragedy and it’s essential that we move with urgency. Inaction will produce a self-reinforcing downturn, causing yet more devastation.

Janet Yellen

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I wish this event had never occurred ; we always grieve the loss of life, but I find nothing in the contemporaneous reporting of this event that convinces me of collusion or malicious action or inaction on the part of the Greensboro Police Department or City personnel.

Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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