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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Continued pollution of the lake shows the state government's inaction .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners.
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It induces nausea and thereby inaction , since nothing can be done to affect the essential condition: action requires illusion.
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Satellite television stations under the control of press barons and modelled on the tabloid press may make inaction even more indefensible.
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Such inaction provides an ideal foil which leaves their assumed image of heterosexuality intact.
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The forfeiture of self-created lobbies is perhaps the major reason for political inaction .
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The Treasury postpones a key sale of notes, citing Congressional inaction on lifting the debt limit.
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They waited there, in Berwick, in a strange state of enforced inaction and suspense.
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Whatever the cause, the inaction that results is costly.