We refuse to sit back.

How can you sit there like you're playing checkers?

Annabella I can't sit and do nothing about it.

I can't stay with my arms crossed!

I can't get it on! Good luck, Freedom.

Would I just sit there?

We're going to get to the bottom of this.

In such circumstances we cannot sit idly by.

So we can't sit around holding hands with all that going on.

I'll never forget sitting there for an hour and a half with my hands in my lap.

Well, I'm not going to just sit here.

We can't sit idly by here either.

The situation is too serious to throw up our hands in resignation.

So this burden of knowledge drives me.

We don't want to sit back and do nothing.

You won't finish today if you just sit there.

We cannot remain idle, waiting for similar disasters to happen.

Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by.

It's just something to do instead of this deadly sitting around and waiting.

To say this is not to suggest laissez faire. Far from it.

In Tanzania they organized so that they were concerned that you would see on the ground that the politicians were saying that money was coming through.

JASON Well, because I'm not gonna sit over, like someů I was just, you know,...

Regulators sat on their hands, as the US regulatory philosophy was free market fundamentalism.

I can tell you, there isn't a person in this room that would sit idly by.

Germany probably could not have stood idly by even for another two days.

It is too important a matter for us to stand idle.

That was an unacceptable state of affairs and the international community should not allow it to continue unchecked.

I don't think it is in the best interest of humanity to sit back and wait for the stick that will break the camel's back.

It won't be us that stood idly by while Kotickovich destroys everything we stand for.

And so, we were all given other duties to keep us occupied and to help continue our training.

Now that doesn't say you know, you're sitting on your hands, you do nothing.

The need to reflect on what to do should not be taken as an excuse for doing nothing.

We feel responsible, and no longer wish to sit idly by while people continue to suffer and die.

He told me that he would have been unable to witness or submit to injustice without doing anything.

Japan, to be sure, did not stand idly by it poured in capital and technologies to support these countries growth.

Just because you're marking time, getting all your psychological knots untied, don't think the rest of us are going to sit around twiddling our thumbs.

While this borrowing binge might end smoothly, as US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has speculated, most world financial leaders are rightly worried about a more precipitous realignment that would likely set off a massive dollar depreciation and possibly much worse. Indeed, if policymakers continue to sit on their hands, it is not hard to imagine a sharp global slowdown or even a devastating financial crisis.

Indeed, if policymakers continue to sit on their hands, it is not hard to imagine a sharp global slowdown or even a devastating financial crisis.

Yet it failed the test of statesmanship once again by sitting on its hands and merely calling for restraint.

You mean all I have to do is build a platform and all these people are going to put their stuff on top and I sit back and roll it in?

Clearly, the international community cannot and should not sit idly by when faced with the heinous crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

And I for one will not sit idly by and watch us condemn that future to stagnation because we lacked the will or the imagination.

We in Latin America and the Caribbean are not simply sitting on our hands in the expectation that our fortunes will somehow be dramatically altered by a sudden change of heart on the part of the richer States of the world.

The Department for Disarmament Affairs is not sitting idly by as concern increases regarding the threat of terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction.

Contributions have come not only from countries, but also from many companies and private individuals who felt that they simply had to do something.