nonaction

He made sure no one would accuse him of nonaction in the face of crisis.

The fact that the cloak had done nothing was treated with the greatest of importance, nonaction being an event in itself.

"People accuse him of nonaction, but it seems to me he is relying on the psychology that time will soften things."

"I think the biggest obstacle at third is keeping your concentration for periods of nonaction," Magadan said.

But could he do that, could he force himself to that course of nonaction?

Mr. Reichel replied that the constitutional problem was not the delay but the failure by the police to explain their nonaction.

Common translations are "nonaction", "effortless action" or "action without intent".

Recommend nonaction re minor female.

It advocated nonaction (wu wei), the strength of softness, spontaneity, and relativism.

(editorial, Dec. 24) commendably suggests that nonaction beyond diplomacy and the embargo remains a politically viable policy.

"By wu-wei, the sage seeks to come into harmony with the great Tao, which itself accomplishes by nonaction."

When the union's executive board did not set a strike date Monday, management officials took that nonaction as a signal that the players want to make a deal.

Cover induces nonaction; deception induces action."

On balance, Mr. Clinton seems likely to benefit from today's nonaction more than Mr. Dole will.

Once more, we read about one-house bills and nonaction on important issues like an independent legislative budget office, lobbying reform and the heinous Rockefeller drug laws.

Left to himself, Roarke would hunt down those responsible for the nonaction directive in Dallas, and . . . eliminate them.

As for the specifics of labor negotiations, Zaun said that the action, or nonaction, taken by the union today "basically means that we like the way things are going."

To the casting director Paul Ventura, the problem with mixing action and nonaction roles is that "very few movie stars can do both and keep a consistent fan base."

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the state had to strike a balance between "sending a message to the industry and its awareness that the industry was accustomed to nonaction."

At a time when Austria was starting to take on responsibility for its nonaction during World War II, February Shadows threw light on problems of the past.

Stephenson and Fielding (1971) describe this effect as "[Once] one member of a gathering has performed a commonly desired action, the payoffs for similar action or nonaction are materially altered.

His sole desire upon discovering this information is to hunt and kill everyone who made and complied with the nonaction order; however, Dallas asks him not to, and he complies because it will break their relationship otherwise.

If nonaction was the prescription he'd have to take whether he liked it or not- Kai Opaka's words still weighed heavy in Sisko's memory- it was best practiced in congenial, if cruder, surroundings.

It might have ended there, with the decision of the Seven to take no action in reprisal for Prince Han's death-to adopt a policy of peaceful nonaction, utuwei-but for one man such a course could not be borne.

These were the writings by Copernicus, Newton, Paine, Freud, Darwin, Boas, Spengler, in nonaction, and by Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Heine, Whitman, Shaw, Joyce, in fiction.