Privately, the action was ascribed to official Peruvian inaction over a brutal attack on the wife of an Australian diplomat.

Despite official inaction, that community rose to help its own and many others.

Indeed, that attitude may have been supported through official inaction.

The story recounts several years of official inaction that, even more so in retrospect, could be seen as bordering on criminal negligence.

Now, in the face of immense official inaction, Lyme disease victims are organizing.

In early 2003, he was involved in ending the official inaction over the SARS crisis.

Repeatedly frustrated by official inaction he attempted to hire private aircraft himself and threatened to publicise the government's inaction in the international press.

But the state's effort to determine whether the loss included any criminal wrongdoing has gone nowhere, bogged down by bureaucratic finger-pointing and official inaction.

After a month of official inaction, four of the seven dead bodies were found at the bottom of a mine; they had been dismembered and burnt with tyres as fuel.

In 1865-66, severe drought struck Odisha and was met by British official inaction.