Those who seek peace cannot stand idly by as nations arm themselves for nuclear war.
Were it to do so, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey would not feel able to stand idly by.
Unlike the UK government, we cannot - we will not - stand idly by while people are suffering.
Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed.
But the United States of America will not stand idly by in the face of actions that undermine global peace and security.
Importantly, the strategy makes clear that the United States will not stand idly by when leaders threaten the credibility of democratic processes.
In many cases, investors have had to stand idly by and watch as their most promising start-ups have been seized by the state.
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It can't stand idly behind in the face of another possible European credit crunch, as my colleague Robert Peston has written about.
Getting back to the present, do Indian war hawks believe China will stand idly by as India tries to reduce Pakistan to vassal-state status?
Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.
And when Qaddafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town, to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by.
We believe that when nations fail to meet these basic obligations -- when peace is threatened or international law is undermined -- that we cannot stand idly by.
But now they have begun to rampage through towns as well, smashing windows, looting shops, destroying homes and terrorising the locals, while Mr Mugabe's police stand idly by.
Had I fallen victim to the belief that all one can do during a slump is stand idly by wallowing in distraction, I may have never gotten this far.
Blakey, who was the principal drafter of RICO while counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, can only stand idly by as his creation takes on a life of its own.
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Mr O'Neill said that Cosla could "not stand idly by and allow local government's reputation and the credibility of individual councils to take the hit for this because these welfare changes are not of our doing".
"We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region -- or on us, " said Gates, speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.
But we cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy, and his forces step up their assaults on cities like Benghazi and Misurata, where innocent men and women face brutality and death at the hands of their own government.
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Yet progressives would have you believe it is more reasonable to believe that Congress will stand idly by as these devastating cuts take their toll than to believe they will rescue hospitals, physicians and other providers in the identical fashion that they have spared doctors in the past.
But Josh Brown, who recommended, did not stand by idly while it sank.
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Given such profound concerns, it is clear investors cannot stand by idly.
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As for Israel, regardless of what the US does, it should be clear that Jerusalem will not stand by idly and allow existential threats to emerge and grow.
It will need to put the nations of the world on notice that they cannot expect us to stand by idly as they welcome Iran into the nuclear club.
So the question is, how can he now stand by idly and just say -- one of his former White House aides is running this thing that says that Mitt Romney may have had something to do with someone's death?
Tricycle-taxi drivers and an armed guard idly stand around in the sun.
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