Sentence examples for have been reactive from inspiring English sources
"They have been reactive".
Troops were confined to Kabul until 2004; troop increases since then have been reactive and slow, allowing the Taliban to regroup in sanctuaries across the border.
The Kremlin's methods have been reactive and often bullying, combining incentives like cheap energy or cash disbursement with threats of trade sanctions and gas cutoffs.
Recent innovations have been reactive, tweaking a new model in response to the latest financial or safety scandal rather than pushing hard to update its technology.
Subsequent efforts to stimulate growth have been reactive rather than proactive, so their policies have had little impact.
The Republicans have been reactive, agreeing to the basic premises of the transfer society while generally trying to slow the rate of growth in spending (although Nixon and Bush II took the line of least political resistance and spent as merrily as any Democrat not named Obama).
"The city's strategy has been real-estate-driven and has been reactive to the threat of corporate move-outs and job losses rather than job creation".
The U.C.I. has been reactive instead of proactive in its approach to many of the sport's greatest problems.
According to the indictment, Craig claimed in writing and in a meeting with staff from the Justice Department's foreign registration unit in October 2013 that his contacts with the media had been reactive only and for the purpose of correcting misinformation.
