Sentence examples for and passivity in the from inspiring English sources
Once again, in Sudan there are starving children, tens of thousands of refugees, rapes and racial epithets, a spiraling death toll and passivity in the White House.
Once that rhetorical lineage is established, he then tries to show how the Idea spread out into American culture at large, bringing with it existentialist self-absorption, moral relativism and passivity in the face of the new administrative state, so that by the midcentury we nearly became Europeans (only fatter).
After years of being stereotyped by violence and passivity in the face of brutal regimes, excuse us as we break free from that demonisation to offer you some friendly advice: in times of crises, leaders – democratically elected or not – too easily invoke "stability" to run roughshod over civil liberties.
Regarding VAW, he felt frustrated about what he perceived as some women's submissive behavior to men and their silence and passivity in the face of IPV.
The second story has been about police excess in dealing with suspects and passivity in dealing with civilian reports of crime.
In order to achieve military objectives, they subject both boys and girls with intense cultural programming from birth to encourage strength in boys and passivity in girls.
51 53 This may relate to what Francis described as 'a culture of habituation and passivity' in his report into poor quality care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
He said the extradition charges had proved convenient for the United States government, because Mr. Sacirbey might otherwise have testified at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague -- and might have provided potentially embarrassing details about American and European passivity in the face of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia.
And such passivity in the face of democratic decay is itself a depressing sign of disrepair".
She wears the hardships of a pioneer lifestyle lightly, and her strength and independence belie her passivity in the face of her husband's increasingly erratic behavior.
Raines takes a similarly defensive tack on other controversial subjects, like Bettelheim's mother-bashing and his theories of Jewish passivity in the face of the Holocaust.
