The phrase "a form of passive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing grammatical structures, particularly in relation to passive voice constructions.
Example: "In English, the passive voice is a form of passive that emphasizes the action rather than the subject."
Alternatives: "a type of passive" or "a variant of passive".
That view was shared by the economist who taught at the university as a form of "passive resistance" to "the establishment".
The Greens senator Scott Ludlam said the legislation contained "the DNA of both of the major parties" and "entrenches a form of passive surveillance over 23 million Australians".
This traditional position accounts for the remarkable survival of the Orthodox churches under the most contradictory and unfavourable of social conditions, but to Western eyes it often appears as a form of passive fatalism.
The idea that older people have somehow had "a fair innings" when they near their life expectancy – currently defined at around 80 years – is, in effect, a form of passive euthanasia.
The next year, the book, which centers on a cultured, idealistic Nazi soldier quartered in the home of an elderly Frenchman and his niece, who choose silence as a form of passive resistance in the face of the soldier's queries and soliloquies, appeared under a pseudonym: Vercors, after the Vercors Massif, in central France, a Resistance stronghold.
He advocated a form of passive resistance, even in the wake of the Peterloo massacre of 1819, when cavalry charged at a demonstration on the outskirts of Manchester, killing eleven people: "And if then the tyrants dare, / Let them ride among you there, / Slash, and stab, and maim, and hew — / What they like, that let them do".
"It seems that this is a form of either passive resistance or passive aggressive behavior by the police," Jeffrey Fagan, an expert on policing at Columbia University Law School who was cited more than any other person in the 2013 court ruling, said in an email.
This discovery overturned the traditional dogma that necrosis can only be a form of unregulated passive cell death and demonstrated the possibility of inhibiting necrotic cell death in multiple forms of degenerative and inflammatory human diseases.
But can the feat be achieved without paying the kind of fees that make the managers, rather than the clients, wealthy people?The hope is that a new form of "passive" investing (mechanically mimicking a benchmark) can deliver superior returns by the simple method of rejigging the components of the indices.
Online games go far beyond a mere form of passive entertainment.
Listening to broadcasts from London, which was officially prohibited by the German occupiers, was a common form of passive resistance, but civil disobedience in particular was employed.
