His labour predecessors , smiling wryly , could have foreseen the results : promising reforms stalled while unfinished ideas , such as the nhs plan , were casually signed through by an inattentive downing street .
Beth-ann left the couch after staring at the news for ten inattentive minutes . She stepped quietly out of the elevator into the basement and saw her laundry basket filled with clothes , dry and folded . Her throat felt parched .
Under these circumstances one could forgive the us for lecturing others on fiscal policy , were it not for the fact that poor us financial regulation and inattentive monetary policy caused the crisis in the first place , and its own fiscal policy is a shambles .
Two days after the crime , when female legislators sought to speak about it in the upper house of the indian parliament , they had to insist and shout for more time as the speaker repeatedly told them that the house had other business to attend to ; their male colleagues were largely inattentive .
The us adminstration 's foreign policy has drawn criticism at home from republicans arguing it is too soft on america 's enemies and , abroad , from europeans complaining barack obama is inattentive towards his friends .
