The indirect technique involves the use of general public or individuals to influence the government for the interest group. Interest groups will try to generate a âgroundswellâ of support through mass mailing and advertising.
slumber-a dormant or quiescent state. dormancy, quiescence, quiescency-a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy.
lethargy lassitude torpor torpidity stupor languor. These nouns refer to a deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity. Lethargy is a state of sluggishness, drowsy dullness or apathy: The war roused the nation from its lethargy.Lassitude implies weariness or diminished energy such as might result from physical or mental strain: âHis anger had evaporated; he felt nothing but utter lassitudeâ (John Galsworthy). The time of lethargy at Elba seems to have been more unfavourable to his powers than the cold of Russia. 2  Simultaneously with this work in the north, Tunstall circuit, having thrown off its lethargy at the Wrine Hill camp-meeting on the 23rd of May 1819, was carrying on an aggressive evangelism.