Sentence examples for more passive form from inspiring English sources

The mystical union may be a lucid and conscious progression of contemplative prayer, or it may take a more passive form of a "seizing" by God of the one who is praying.

Unconscious selection, by contrast, is a much more passive form of artificial selection and may involve no specific intent whatsoever.

Whereas consultation is the more passive form of participation where consumers are asked their views but are not involved in deciding or doing the research [ 15].

That is not to say that I despise spending time with people, it's just that I need time to recharge, and this often involves using more passive forms of communication such as social networking.

Severe reporting restrictions have made it difficult to assess the level of unrest around Iran, but anecdotal reports today suggested that the heavy presence of security forces had succeeded in dispersing supporters of the opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who resorted to more passive forms of protest.

In its more passive forms, touch involves cutaneous activations across the surface of the body.

This resistance can take the form of active resistance, including complaints to department heads or vocal refusal to participate, as well as more passive forms of resistance, such as just not following instructor directions and doing something else.

Experience from the SIs and other professional development opportunities for faculty in the United States (described in Hilborn, 2013) indicate that faculty who receive sufficient pedagogical training using active learning prefer this strategy rather than using more passive forms of pedagogy, even though it may be difficult to maintain (e.g., Ebert-May et al., 2011).

Despite the popularity of community health meetings in Bangladesh, which focused on more passive forms of education, community members in both health districts reported virtually no mechanisms for their participation in health planning or management to register concerns or complaints at their health facilities.

That may lead to rapid state expansion fueled by political patronage; it may also take the more-passive form of surrendering state capacity through insider privatization and the toleration of official corruption.

But she says government changes have made the job unsuited to independent thinkers, and more attractive to passive form-fillers.