Sentence examples for but a passive from inspiring English sources
Los Alamos has always been the aggressive leader of secret nuclear science, but a passive follower in human resources.
Mr. Rumsfeld, who is known as anything but a passive consumer of intelligence at the Pentagon, foreshadowed in the ballistic missile report his current working view that senior policy makers must "engage analysts, question their assumptions and methods, seek from them what they know, what they don't know and ask them their opinions".
Because of its high yield, Compass is often mistaken for a BDC (business development company) but it is anything but a passive lender.
In response, Clarke argues that if Leibniz is right then a free agent would be merely passive because determined to do what reason presents, but a "passive agent" is a contradiction since the concept of agency includes the concept of activity.
F− would therefore accumulate far above its extracellular concentration if no conductive pathway for the anion were present in the membrane, but a passive F− channel would undermine this weak-acid accumulation effect.
This gradual rise of the average mutation rate is not a reflection of selection for an optimal mutation rate, as all mutations are deleterious, but a passive outcome of an upward mutational bias toward the production of mutator versus antimutator alleles (f d > 0.5).
To suggest it is any uglier is nothing but a passive-aggressive attack against reform.
Like the others, Jörg functions as a figure in the conversation, but in a passive role.
In a battery or other source of direct current the anode is the negative terminal, but in a passive load it is the positive terminal.
It was not a customisable experience, but rather a passive, pleasant journey through Lamborghini's heritage.
Hurley said the next big thing will be products that let people stay engaged but in a passive way: "Today technology asks too much of people," he said.
