Sentence examples for give a passive from inspiring English sources

Since my job is public speaking, and I'm the only guy in the room talking for hours on end, I've never believed it's good enough for me to go up there and give a passive lecture and bore everyone to tears.

Banks gave a passive aggressive stare, waved his papers and narrowed his lips.

METHODS: As a pretreatment, male Sprague-Dawley and P rats were given a passive oral administration of either alcohol (1.0 g/kg) or tap water.

This implies that perception is a given, a passive process.

We predicted that inefficient TLR4 stimulation by B. parapertussis LPS may result in the low level of neutrophil accumulation in response to infection over the first few days and may allow this pathogen to grow rapidly during this time, even in animals given a passive transfer of immune serum.

Lean forward to give a nice passive stretch to the subscapularis.

The key is investing in municipal bonds, which give you a passive income stream that is entirely tax exempt at the federal level.

His intention wasn't so much to give people a passive museum experience but instead to plunge visitors into the lives and times, passions and politics "of this remarkable group of people".

Our rate is probably an underestimation, given a mainly passive system of surveillance.

Moreover, the Central Intelligence Agency could give "a certain amount of passive-aggressive resistance" to any directive to restart any aggressive interrogation practices that could leave it exposed if political winds shift again, said Mark Lowenthal, who was its assistant director for analysis and production from 2002 to 2005.

Nonetheless, increased activity in the aMCC, specifically in the caudal cingulate zone, was reported when the noxious implements were shown to strike the hand and participants had to give a motor responses compared to passive pain observation.