Sentences with word «nonaction»

It has to escalate so that heads of state, heads of government, will consider the social, financial, and human costs of nonaction.
«It's been a decade of complete nonaction,» he says.
I've looked in history for heroes who became heroes for what they did not do, but it is hard to observe nonaction; I could not easily find any.»
«We want to take as much what we call dead time, nonaction, out of the game, so that we can make the game more exciting,» Goodell said in November, according to The New York Times.
Of course, in one sense these Zen formulations are paradoxes that are intended to instill nonattachment and nonaction (wu wei).
In one case there is a nonaction, in the other, an action.
The Marxists can claim that nonviolent Christianity objectively commits the Christian either to nonaction or to ineffective action in the presence of oppression; and, further, that nonaction and ineffective action at their best mean exposing the throats of the oppressed to the fangs of the oppressors, and at their worst mean objective participation in that very brutalization.
Some of this nonaction is likely due to lack of knowledge about proven retention strategies.
During those times it is nonaction — keeping the bidding paddle in one's pocket — that can become the stuff of which tomorrow's heroes are made.
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