inaction

Converse of object

• justify: Consumer groups however expressed some concern that weighing costs and benefits might be used as a pretext to justify inaction.
• condemn: Other asbestos widows condemned government inaction, saying that if action had been taken sooner their husbands would not have died.
• urge: If leaders must take responsibility for these terrible failures, then so must those who always urge inaction.
• kill: Bertie Charles, aged 27, was killed inaction in Belgium on 9th May 1915.

Adjective modifier

• dreary: She spoke in a soft, then abruptly she went by in dreary inaction.
• total: There was a stunning contrast between the UN's rhetoric and their almost total inaction.
• own: The actor's reaction & tears are compared by Hamlet to his own inaction.
• complete: They were incensed by the UN's complete inaction initially to defend the result of the referendum it had organized.
• such: So the question must be asked: is such inaction culpable negligence?
• continued: The risks of continued inaction were simply too high.

Preposition: on

• issue: I have been contacted by a number of constituents who have voiced their disgust at the Government's inaction on this issue.
• part: Of course they told of their meeting with Ujarak's sledge, which rendered inaction on the part of the pursuers still more unbearable.
• terrorism: We'd already have inaction on terrorism new agent through.

Noun used with modifier

• government: In terms of the scandal of Government inaction in the prisoner release affair, one thing is clear: Charles Clarke must go.
• police: As a result of police inaction, the gunmen were able to get away in the direction of the Afghan border.

Possessives

Preposition: in

• face: The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous.

Preposition: of

• government: And much of it flows from the actions or inactions of government itself.
• authority: Gordon made strenuous efforts toward crushing the slave trade, but their endeavors were largely thwarted by the inaction of the authorities at Khartoum.