Significados de general inattention en inglés

And since we fix our minds on other things, war becomes possible and probable through our general inattention.

My driver had managed to leave, and I waited for a moment of general inattention to do the same thing.

Why this general inattention?

The president arose and, in the midst of general inattention, muttered rather than spoke the following formulas which the interpreter immediately translated to the doctor.