Sentence examples for a passive interest from inspiring English sources

Mr. Berman, who became chairman of Alpha last year, said the company removed Mr. Tollman and the others from their posts and converted their stake in Alpha into a passive interest to satisfy regulators and allow Alpha to continue.

"The brief notice which appeared in the telegraphic news at that time aroused a passive interest which had existed from my childhood," wrote Wilbur, "and led me to take down from the shelves of our home library a book on animal locomotion by Prof Marey which I had already read several times... we soon passed from the reading to the thinking stage, and finally to the working stage".

There is nothing like equity to assure that outside directors will take more than a passive interest in the decisions they make about a company's future.

His enjoyment of music is more than a passive interest; he is proficient with the guitar and piano, and can play them by ear.

He owns a tiny, passive interest in five buildings in or near the West Side of Manhattan, although his assets were placed in a blind trust when he became deputy mayor last January.

People want to hear and know about events, but it's a very passive interest".

MFM's owners have a passive financial interest in Felix Associates, one of whose principals pleaded guilty to bribery charges two years ago.

Twitter can claim better than passive interest when it shows an ad.

The hot-pink ribbon drew, at best, passive interest yesterday from those gathered at the Grand Army Plaza subway stop in Brooklyn.

"Unless you have that goal of generating passive income and you see that nice passive interest compound interest later, I think it's very hard for people to stick to any goal," she says.

Being in the grip of forward-looking pursuits is important, but we have passive interests as well, which make a more extensive past preferable.