Johnson was guilty of willful lies of omission. She called the "glaring omission" of his status "a newsworthy act of negligence". Civil contempt can involve acts of omission. Acceptable lies are often lies of omission. The possibility of copula omission is mentioned under . Rayford considered this "an almost inexplicable omission". The main reason for this omission is to not unnecessarily constrain implementers. The reason for its omission is quite persuasive. F = omission noted in the footnote. An act can consist of commission, omission or possession. Some former scientists were found guilty of "acts of commission" or "acts of omission". The governor was responsible to the Secretary of State for acts of omission and commission. Omission and disconfirmation biases also contribute to vaccine hesitancy. An interesting contrast to omission of evidentials is overuse of evidentials. It was held that there should be a difference between commission and omission.