Sentence examples for normally passive from inspiring English sources

This call for remedial action aroused officials of the normally passive Federal Trade Commission.

One thing the successful campaigns have in common: they got big, normally passive institutional investors on board.

Concern that Chinese pressure on Japan's borders will only grow has led to uncharacteristically strident calls in normally passive Japan to stand up to China's demands.

IT IS too soon to call it a trend, but the fact that America's normally passive shareholders have voted against executive pay packages at two big companies within a week suggests that something is going on.

But films such as "Lady in a Cage" reveal the dark side of summer, that season in which fights break out on the subway and lovers sleep far apart in the bed and the heat tempts normally passive mortals to madness.

In Geneva, the normally passive United Nations Human Rights Council voted unanimously on Friday to suspend Libya's membership, but not before a junior delegate of the Libyan mission announced that he and his colleagues had resigned after deciding to side with the Libyan people.

Normally, parameterselectionof passive and active components in a converter mainly depends on their rated voltages and rated currents.

Normally a passive lot trying to log hours and get paid, during the two superstars' Legends of Summer tour, the workers were dancing, rhyming and singing along with the 60,000 or so others.

Sometimes, it is necessary for the student to read documents or view videos, which are normally associated with passive learning rather than active, constructive, and interactive learning resources.

Normally, expiration is passive, but patients with lung injury, intra-abdominal sepsis, or altered sensorium often have forced expiratory efforts.

To prevent disturbances from outside electrical fields, shielding (normally active and passive) is needed for a stable behavior of the electrode.