Why do we accept it?" The days of passive acceptance, it turned out, were over.
Belshe was struck by their passive acceptance.
There was no passive acceptance of the result: it was an all-action approach.
And today, the family seemed to have settled into their grief with more passive acceptance.
And it is this level of passive acceptance that I find really scary.
Categories in the wiggle-test-reports range from "Active Participation," thru "Passive Acceptance," to "Open Revolt".
Thus, the decision to taper could yet be interpreted as passive acceptance of lower inflation.
While it is difficult for a single individual to resist such pervasive iniquity, passive acceptance is not an honorable option.
But when all else fails, disruptions have it over passive acceptance of second-class citizenship for people with disabilities.
It is sad that the most we can usually expect of ourselves is the passive acceptance of other people's misery.
There's a parallel tendency — a passive acceptance that belongs somewhere along a continuum between faith and negligence — to assume that, in time, help will come along.
