Clinton simply out-campaigned Tsongas in the South and the Midwest: Tsongas was somewhat passive.
In the UK, artists can be somewhat passive about their own careers, waiting for funding or not maximising an opportunity if it presents itself.
At the weekend Bernie Ecclestone, the commercial rights holder of Formula One, reacted sharply to suggestions that his sport had been somewhat passive in the face of the Piquet claims.
(Allan Kozinn) OLGA BORODINA and ILDAR ABDRAZAKOV (Tuesday) The creamy-voiced, languid Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina is one of the best we have today, although her gifts as a recitalist are mixed; the voice is beautiful, the presentation has been somewhat passive.
I think that moderate Republicans are intimidated and are somewhat passive these days.
While it's fine to do the old standbys -- things like looking at old pictures or watching movies together, those are somewhat passive.
These differences, which at face value suggest that Chinese patients are somewhat passive in medical consultations may relate to cultural factors and/or to a significant hierarchy and power differential between patients and doctors in Hong Kong.
While television "is somewhat of a passive experience" for children, she said, interactive apps give them immediate feedback and tailored experiences that become more difficult as they gain skills.
The mycobacterial envelope is somewhat permeable to hydrophobic molecules via passive diffusion and to hydrophilic molecules through porins that are smaller and less abundant than those in Gram-negative bacteria.
Like Iris Vegan, the narrator of "The Blindfold," Leo is a somewhat passive fellow, and he is thoroughly in thrall to the intense and brooding Bill, writing essays about his art and reveling in their intellectual exchanges.
