inertia

That inertia can lock in not only the technology but also the expanded scope of surveillance it enables.

It is strategy in stark contrast to the inertia that gripped Arsenal last season, when their failure to solve an obvious problem - namely sign a recognised striker - cost them dearly.

“The West’s real crisis is one of inertia, of will, and of myth,” he wrote in the closing pages of “Cadillac Desert.”

“The camera is almost always moving. It has inertia to it, the idea being that there’s an inevitability to the character’s actions.”

People who want to fight Trump will also have to fight this inertia — even though many of the party’s presumptive presidential candidates are saying, no, no, I'm going to come out swinging.