Meanings of force inaction in English

A legal challenge by the family of a man murdered in Portadown, Co Armagh after alleged security force inaction will go ahead in June.

The forced inaction of their position seemed to gall him more than the others.

The confinement, together with mental suffering, anxiety and forced inaction, began to tell on him.

The forced inaction of the winter was over.

In this period of forced inaction, he could contemplate at leisure the features and form of his charmer.

Trouble, with forced inaction, nearly always has a soporific tendency, and a continuous noise is favorable to sleep.

On his days out he drills and marches, to get back into condition after the forced inaction of the trenches.

The moments in which a single stroke might have overthrown the whole fabric of Napoleon's power were spent in forced inaction.

This new creed interested him by its novelty, especially since he was in forced inaction and had nothing else to think of.

Much as he loathed Trieste and the life of forced inaction there, he felt this might be to exchange the frying-pan for the fire.

Again and again the thought of her came back to torment him, and he began to chafe more and more at his forced inaction.

I wonder when I contemplate it now, how we got through that weary interval-howwe bore that forced inaction, that unrelieved oppression of suspense.

The elements of hell are pain, slavery, imprisonment, rebellion, forced exertion, forced inaction, shame, fear, self condemnation, social condemnation, universal condemnation, aimlessness, and despair.