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Example sentences for: inaction

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These donations are intended to rectify U.S. government inaction.
It was the duty of Tenet and the CIA leadership to balance the risks of inaction against jeopardizing the lives of their operatives and agents.
The Times does a good job of supplying specifics on the U.S. inaction in Rwanda, noting that the Clinton administration blocked a UN on-the-ground effort that "might have saved hundreds of thousands of lives."
The Bush administration's approach to the unfolding disaster in Yugoslavia might be characterized as inaction backed up by indifference.
The cover of the NYT "Book Review" (plus an inside WP "Book World" piece) is given to Philip Gourevitch's extraordinary book on the Rwanda massacres, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families . Gourevitch's narrative demonstrates the "collective criminality" of Rwandan Hutus--neighbors hacking neighbors to death--as well as the all-too-familiar inaction of the U.N.