"We do not plan to fire researchers at the pension age--if he actively participates in the scientific life he must work," he says.
He might have become president, or at least have won his party's nomination, if he had actively pursued it.
Both features are intended to make sure the driver retains control if he is actively trying to avoid an accident — say, preventing a collision with another car while simultaneously swerving around a pedestrian.
On the other hand, he was entirely at the mercy of the captain, not only on the ship but professionally: because the chief mate has no independent contact with the home office, the only way he'll ever get a captaincy is if he's actively promoted by his captain.
Carver had also spent some of the coup period in a meeting with civilian rebel leaders at Thuy's house, although it is not known if he pro-actively encouraged Diệm opponents.
But, Mr. Adkins wrote in a memo, Private Manning would be "salvageable if he receives and actively participates" in therapy.
But people familiar with the investigation said Mr. Mu was well aware of the irregularities and numerous misdeeds occurring in Shenyang even if he did not actively participate.
Mr. Soros is a persuasive salesman of his plan to rescue Europe, but his most telling remark comes when I ask him what he would do if he were still actively trading.
In a vigorous recent biography, "Gauguin: An Erotic Life," Nancy Mowll Mathews argues that the artist was strangely androgynous, and that if he was not actively homosexual, he was most stimulated by other men.
If he is more actively remembered than any other of the early philhellenes, that is probably because, in a manner of speaking, he gave his life for Greece at the age of only 36.His death from fever in April 1824, in the remote town of Missolonghi, must have seemed at the time like a catastrophe for the Hellenic cause and its backers in London.
