Sentence examples for once passive from inspiring English sources

These once "passive" voices became a lot more active.

Jesse can be an exasperating showboater, at once passive and vain.

Once passive objects are able to report what's happening, where is the power balance?

Audiences once passive, anonymous, and isolated are suddenly active, empowered, and connected.

Peace of mind disappears as once passive objects turn the tables, responding to you in unpredictable ways.

Once passive and fatalistic, villagers are now better educated, more mobile, less deferential and ultimately more politically demanding.

The idea is that, armed with information, once-passive shareholders will curb managers' rapacity.

Just as he did in Miami, Erickson has turned once-passive players into braggarts who fear no one.

This week, shortly after visiting Washington for talks with George Bush, he toured the Middle East, the fount of more than three-quarters of Japan's oil.Mr Abe's men say his travels paint an emerging vision: while the alliance with America remains the cornerstone of Japan's security policy, Mr Abe is also pushing once-passive Japan to pursue its own, more muscular course.

But overall, especially when you consider how cheap they are to run once built, passive houses aren't that much more expensive to build than equivalent-sized normal houses.

Once a passive watcher of events in the world ("In my mind, political actors had always appeared as fictional characters"), Ngugi is now part of the intellectual elite of his generation.