inactively

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The committee recommended expanding the program to “all but the most inactively traded” stocks, ETFs and related derivatives.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 19, 2011

We're not abandoning the shuttle, but we're not going to wait inactively either.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet in this short interval, when that will lay inactively in abeyance, he suffered.

From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)

To me and to many others the thought that our country might stand by and watch inactively an attack upon France was intolerable.

From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various

Buol, upon this, yielded and remained, but, during the fearful battle that ensued, remained in the post-house on the Brenner, inactively watching the conflict, which terminated in the triumph of the peasantry.

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George