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  • n  the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events
    she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident

  • It's more that they treated me and my husband with the sort of arrogance and unresponsiveness that, upon consulting with other moms, I'm discovering is not uncommon in parent-ped .
  • Indeed, Russia no longer has the idle hands and lands to afford the manic wastage, inspired inefficiency and brontosauric unresponsiveness of an economy nannied from Moscow.
  • As a young lawyer giving his first significant public speech at the age of 28, Abraham Lincoln warned that a persistent period of dysfunction and unresponsiveness by government .
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  • Let's Put The Bureaucrats Under Surveillance
    We all know that enterprises run by the state suffer from ineradicable flaws in their DNA. Inefficiency. Lack of accountability. Unresponsiveness to customers. We believe such conditions to be akin to laws of nature, in contrast to private enterprises which by their nature cannot long survive with those attributes.
    July 25, 2013 - Forbes
Quotes

  • Hugh McFadyen in Winnipeg Sun
    Common sense would dictate that somebody would would have been going to check to see how he was doing ...... There was some kind of culture of neglect and unresponsiveness that needs to be looked into,said McFadyen.

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