Misusing the Inaction Argument

The Price of Inaction

Democracy in Inaction at the World Bank

Passive tolerance to evil through inaction or indifference.

Slovakia does not consider inaction to be an answer.

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

Calamity can still be averted if the costs of inaction escalate steadily. The worst problems, however, are those with inaction costs that remain invisible for a long time, but increase suddenly and explosively.

Let us therefore be realistic and not make the absence of consensus an excuse for inaction.

Substantive inaction by some large greenhouse gas emitting countries represents a serious threat to our existence.

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

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

The task, then, is to break down the barriers of inaction and connect existing capabilities with developing interventions.

Political and philosophical differences about the nature of terrorism must not be used as an excuse for inaction.

Most people are guilty of the evil of inaction, because your mother said, Don't get involved. Mind your own business.

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

In that regard, we are disappointed by the relative inaction by Member States in seeking progress on Security Council reform.

Europe got itself into this situation through a combination of inaction and short sighted policymaking. This leaves considerable room for improvement.

Emboldened by the Security Council inaction, Ethiopia intensified its unlawful conduct to obstruct and frustrate the operations of the Boundary Commission.

The Council must ensure that disgraceful inaction, as was seen in the case of the genocide in Rwanda, cannot occur again.

But national authorities must lead. Ten years after the Guiding Principles were signed, the time for excuses and inaction has run out.

The Council has to ensure that disgraceful inaction, such as in the case of the genocide in Rwanda, cannot ever occur again.

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

These delays are perceived by the community as voluntary inaction and hence undermine the general trust in the professionalism of the police.

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

We so often don't realize what our action and our inaction does to people we think we will never see and never know.

The pressure on policymakers to address the risks of divergence will increase next year. The consequences of inaction will extend well beyond 2015.

An analytical framework that integrates environmental costs and benefits, and also the cost of inaction in decision making, should be developed for this purpose.

It is therefore regrettable to note that this crucial international pact has been rendered ineffective as a result of inaction on the part of States.

In the face of poor political judgment or political inaction, it becomes a kind of intervention, assessing the damage and asking us to reassess our behavior.

If the parties could not work together, each acknowledging the development priorities and security concerns of the other, the result of the Conference would be inaction.

Given the numerous efforts to break the deadlock, the increasing impatience of most of its members and current threats to security, its continued inaction was unsustainable.

If there is no direction at the strategic level, these bodies dealing with disarmament and non proliferation issues are bound to suffer from varying degrees of inaction.

The Secretary General is therefore right when he says that consensus might be desirable but that its absence should not be taken as a pretext for inaction.

As the review research shows, the stakes of inaction on antimicrobial resistance are high. Now is the time to search for bold, clear, and practical long term solutions.

The extremely high maternal mortality rate due to unsafe abortions was a serious problem, but the most serious problem was the Government's inaction in the face of it.

Article 5, however, stated that customary practices were in themselves the reason why the law had to be changed, rather than being used as an excuse for inaction.

The success stories in public health for the poor are multiplying. Given the low cost and the huge benefits of supporting such efforts, there is no excuse for inaction.

Now, the Global Commission s analysis has largely refuted the economic arguments for inaction. Add to that growing public concern about climate change, and the conditions for decisive action may have arrived.

Although the incremental approach to nuclear disarmament was both realistic and balanced, it should not be regarded as a justification for inaction or for actions that were incompatible with the Treaty.

(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

The inaction argument makes us spend vast resources on policies that will do virtually nothing to deal with climate change, thereby diverting those resources from policies that could actually make an impact.

The author further argues that domestic law does not afford him a remedy against the inaction of the authorities, and that he is being deprived of an opportunity to enforce his rights.

We cannot let history repeat itself. If collective inaction prevails, we risk a return to the political and economic woes of the 1930 s, which paved the way to a devastating world conflict.

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 not my intention nor, I am sure, the intention of my colleagues on the Special Committee to be party to a process of inaction, with the adoption of resolutions as our only goal.