But in the case of Dykes, the crowd were not merely witnesses but active participants in the event, goading a boy into killing himself apparently, at least in part, to provide them with smartphone footage to upload to social media.
In his "Considerations on Representative Government," Mill wrote: The power in society which has any tendency to convert itself into political power is not power quiescent, power merely passive, but active power; in other words, power actually exerted; that is to say, a very small portion of all the power in existence.
But the scriptwriters succeed in building an affecting and authentic scenario in which you are not merely a spectator, but active participant.
Therefore, CCP always requires continuous neuromuscular activity and, in turn, is merely an active oral manoeuvre rather than an oral resting posture.
The reasons for this are undoubtedly complex, but the prevalence of "rape myths" – most notably that women lie about rape, and that promiscuous, or merely sexually active women make unreliable witnesses – prejudices the attitudes of jurors, the CPS and the police, and discourages women from thinking it possible for them to believed.
In quadrant B, we find alternative uses of public space which display merely an active and intense use of it, in contexts in which – to repeat Amin's concepts ([2008]) – the ethics of the situation, influenced by the physical configuration of places in a context of throwntogetherness (Massey [2005]), favour practices that ensure a variety of uses and accept diversity.
Once achieved this would be enforced by offensive jihad, although Haddad prefers to call it merely "pro-active" jihad.
Ming needs to recognise that one of his key challenges is not merely to be active but to be able to demonstrate that he is being active.
The law now gives the D.E.A. the authority to approve prescription licenses if a doctor merely shows an active license to practice medicine.
