The risk of inaction or inappropriate action has reached enormous proportions.

The Administration should draw lessons from that experience and hold managers accountable for their inaction or delayed action.

The dangers of both action and inaction are very high.

Passive tolerance to evil through inaction or indifference.

Furthermore, the term conduct encompassed both action and inaction acquiescence for example, was regarded as an act.

Australia s Kevin Rudd agrees that the cost of inaction will be far greater than the cost of action.

Even if inaction (or action oriented towards the longer term) is the best policy, it is not an option for democratically elected politicians, whom voters expect to govern, which inevitably means action with the potential for quick results.

We must, however, temper our ideals with a dose of realism, and prevent inaction from taking the place of action.

(d) Ethics. Given the pervasiveness of information systems and networks in modern societies, participants need to respect the legitimate interests of others and recognize that their action or inaction may harm others

Misusing the Inaction Argument

The Price of Inaction

Inaction or delay would be disastrous for the climate, but it would also be disastrous economically.

Such an approach would provide the breathing space needed to restore confidence and implement reforms in an atmosphere of moderate optimism rather than despair. The risk of inaction or inappropriate action has reached enormous proportions.

It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it.

Endorsing draft resolutions that condemn Israeli actions but fail to address Palestinian actions or inaction has real consequences.

The agreement only stresses that labor rights are to be respected, highlighting that a party to the agreement shall not fail to effectively enforce its labor laws, through a sustained or recurring course of action or inaction, in a manner affecting trade between the Parties.

Besides, is inaction a real alternative?

They could argue that action is not necessary in a specific case, but they would have to do so publicly, thus becoming accountable for their inaction.

The sleight of hand works because we assume that the action will cancel all the effects of inaction, whereas of course, nothing like that is true.

This pattern of action and inaction by the Council has given greater credence to those who believe the UN s highest human rights body is inherently anti Israel.

Democracy in Inaction at the World Bank

The cost of inaction or merely pretending to act is likely to be high for everyone in the Middle East.

So there is no excuse for continued inaction.

The sleight of hand works because we assume that the action will cancel all the effects of inaction, whereas of course, nothing like that is true. This becomes much clearer if we substitute much smaller action than Barroso envisions.

What we stand to loose if we do not act in a preventative manner, i.e. cost of inaction or business as usual.

Countries must constantly bear in mind that those most affected by their actions, or inaction, were always the poorest and most vulnerable.

The costs of inaction are morally and economically untenable.

There are structural explanations for policy inaction as well.

Slovakia does not consider inaction to be an answer.

Inaction is simply not an option for the new government.

Inaction in other areas will be bad news for many.

It can continue to do so in Turkey, Russia, and Ukraine, or, through inattention and inaction, Europe could lose credibility, influence, and economic opportunities.

Path two, you become guilty of the evil of passive inaction.

The G 8 is now reaping the consequences of its inaction.

Corrective and preventive action (CAPA, also called corrective action preventive action, or simply corrective action) are improvements to an organization's processes taken to eliminate causes of or other undesirable situations.

The cost of inaction would be considerably higher than the required investment.

Likewise, almost everyone understands that while global warming might be a much smaller or larger problem than existing models suggest, this uncertainty is no excuse for inaction.

The scale of the violence in Syria underscores the risk implied by inaction.

Such inaction is an abdication of responsibility to uphold international and humanitarian law.

The third factor is the willingness of outside groups both states and non state groups to prolong Iraq s misery by supporting the insurgency, whether overtly or by inaction.

His own image has been tarnished by his inaction (or worse) during the massacre of more than a thousand Gujarati Muslims in a pogrom on his watch in 2002.

But the long term nature of this challenge must not lull us into inaction.

Twenty years later, with the stakes even higher, we can no longer afford inaction.

Second, the benefits of mitigating emissions of GHGs are so overwhelming that this, combined with the prospect of the harm resulting from inaction, makes it imperative for the world to devise an international response and a plan of action.

(b) Take action that would prevent, or refrain from taking action that is likely to cause, current or imminent harm or prejudice to the arbitral process itself