Sentence examples for a certain passive from inspiring English sources

The paper presents variations of a certain passive safety containment for a near future BWR.

At the moment, I have a certain passive income, through rents and investments, that will allow me to stop working for the rest of my days.

There was a certain passive-aggressive nature to meetings".

I'm not a formidable negotiator, but I can summon up a certain passive-aggressive wheedling for emergencies.

There's a certain passive-aggressiveness to that date: no one ordinarily puts new albums out in that awful, deathly, hungover period between Christmas and New Year, and there's clearly a reason why.

It bothered Bill, but he also derived a certain passive-aggressive pride from it too.

This is because we are in a certain sense passive in relation to such seemings.

This chapter presents several standards that may be incorporated into certain passive optical networks (PONs), depending on what you plan to do with the PON.

Furthermore, we also focused on the contributions of microencapsulated PCMs to the thermal performances of fabrics of certain passive insulation characteristics for the given cold weather and physical activity conditions, based on the model developed for a multi-layer fabric system.

The top rate on interest, rents, royalties and certain "passive income" would rise to 43.4% from 35%. (Neither 2013 rate includes the return next year of the phaseout of itemized deductions for the better off, which can add one percentage point to both rates).

There's no active noise cancellation here, but he ear cups do offers a certain amount of passive filtering out of surrounding sound, which is plenty for most use cases.