Dean vacillated between the contentment of inactivity and the frustration of trying to change the unchangeable.
The consequences of both weight gain and inactivity are many.
Yet this relative inactivity of the Serbs gave the Bulgarians one more opportunity, which they seized.
But the plot being discovered during their inactivity, the conspirators were banished to Africa, and Tira-dentes, the leader, was hanged.
Events, indeed, might readily have gone in favour of the moderates had Carnot acted with decision; but he relapsed into strange inactivity, while Barras and his military tool prepared to coerce the majority.
