The phrase "active or proactive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing approaches, attitudes, or behaviors that involve taking initiative or being engaged in a situation.
Example: "In our team meetings, we encourage everyone to adopt an active or proactive approach to problem-solving."
Alternatives: "engaged or anticipatory" or "dynamic or forward-thinking".
Despite a report from the chief UN weapons inspector describing Iraqi cooperation as "active or even proactive", America and Britain today pushed for a resolution giving Iraq a maximum of 10 days to comply fully with UN demands to disarm.
In order to take advantage of this potential, however, Egypt's leaders and bureaucrats, particularly within the tourism sector, need to open up to outside-the-box thinkers and strategists, get in touch with this new reality and get active -- or better yet, proactive -- in returning Egypt to its rightful place in the international travel arena.
Of course, it's hard to understand how you can, one the one hand, justify his sketchy Bain tenure, and on the other, demand his tax returns when they very well might reveal he was active, retroactive, proactive, retrofitted or whatever other incarnation of "active" or "retro" one could be when it comes to talking about your role at the corporation you founded and in which you hold all the shares.
We analyzed the amount of collagen that was released in the cell medium after stimulation with PG-released supernatant using an antibody capable of detecting the α1 and α2 subtypes, in active, proactive, or dimer form [ 53].
As Figure 6 shows, the antibody was able to detect the α1 and α2 subtypes that were in active, proactive, or dimer form (molecular weight of 290−300 kDa for the dimer, 180 kDa for pro- α1, 145 kDa for α1 and pro- α2, and 100 120 kDa for α2).
Self-management is an active and proactive process that involves activities and goals and that is continuously ongoing.
"I am very active and proactive in managing my career," Szilágyi says, always planning one or two steps ahead.
It is an active and proactive tradition, a tradition of power and rule, of political activity which makes and remakes the political subject, the political community.
I have been repeating for years to Muslim people that they have to be positively visible, active and proactive within their respective western societies.
It is to misinterpret the office of prime minister as mostly one of middle management, of receiving information and only getting involved where he is needed, than one of active and proactive leadership.
