Sentence examples for a passive bystander from inspiring English sources

She was a leader, not a passive bystander.

In one study, participants were either alone or with a passive bystander.

Walk into appointments with your doctors as an equal, not as a passive bystander.

The jury, he said, would hear "what happened to John Lindh," implying that Mr. Lindh was a passive bystander.

Advertising, in effect, pulled the consumer through the store, reducing the retailer to little more than a passive bystander in the sale.

But he then went on to distinguish between a neutral who acts as a passive bystander and an "active neutral" who helps parties achieve a desired goal.

In a statement read out by her lawyer, Zschäpe painted an image of herself as a victim and passive bystander, insisting she only found out about the killings after they had taken place.

Today many patients want to be well informed and demand to take an active role in the planning of their treatment reflecting a shift in the patient's role in decision-making from the passive bystander to an active participant [ 2, 3, 6].

In particular, DNA is not a passive mechanical bystander in the process of transcriptional regulation.

But critics say Mr. Levitt was no passive bystander.

The paradox of this presidency is that this most passive bystander president is at the same time the most ideologically ambitious in decades.