inaction

How to use inaction in a sentence

• One night, frustrated with inaction and disgusted with fossil fuel use, he sat at his computer and calculated the sources of all his own emissions so he could go about reducing them.

  The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. | by Elizabeth Weil | January 25, 2021 | ProPublica

• The government stimulus that kept millions of Americans from falling into poverty earlier in the pandemic is long gone, and new aid is still a dot on the horizon after months of congressional inaction.

  Stealing to survive: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out during the pandemic | Abha Bhattarai, Hannah Denham | December 10, 2020 | Washington Post

• However, the consequences of inaction were even more terrifying.

  How the Truman Doctrine transformed America’s role in the world | A.J. Baime | December 4, 2020 | Washington Post

• Still, the rapid mobilization of support shows how lawmakers from both parties are trying to come up with a compromise quickly after months of inaction.

  Momentum builds for bipartisan $908 billion stimulus package as more GOP senators express support | Jeff Stein, Mike DeBonis, Seung Min Kim | December 3, 2020 | Washington Post

• The last two weekly unemployment reports show further worrisome signs, as new unemployment claims rose, and economists say further inaction from Congress in the face of a public health crisis could derail the fledgling recovery.

  U.S. hiring slowed in November as coronavirus cases surged, ADP report says | Hamza Shaban | December 2, 2020 | Washington Post