Sentence examples for being active rather than from inspiring English sources

Electronic voltmeters differ from all other forms of analog voltmeters in being active rather than passive instruments.

To a certain extent they have given up the ideal-typical judicial style of decision making for a political one (e.g., by being active rather than reactive, broad construction of open-textured constitutional texts and flexible forms of judicial decision-making).

These senators are being active rather than reactive.

That the aberrantly spliced genes are up-regulated is consistent with the process being active rather than passive.

Choose a break activity that is active, rather than passive.

We want to be active, rather than passive spectators.

"It's active, rather than just sitting there and being bombarded," says Jonathan Hawkes.

The aim is galleries that will be active rather than passive, that will become part of the art-making process, providing inspiration for artists who, ideally, will make site-specific works for the spaces.

In experiments on monkeys, when the animal chooses to respond to one kind of sensation rather than to another, it is the supplementary area that is active rather than the precentral area.

Although some desert lizards have slightly higher body temperatures than their close relatives in more moderate habitats, the immediate thermal conditions often determine when and where a lizard will be active rather than what its body temperature will be.

A stockmarket recovery would reduce those figures, but it would take many years of high share returns to wipe out the deficits.That pressure may produce some change, inducing more institutions to be active rather than passive owners.