Sentence examples for passive acquiescence from inspiring English sources

Passive acquiescence, however, was not the only way nonslaveholders participated in slavery.

The supply of military advisers underlines that this is no passive acquiescence in what the Saudis are doing: our government is directly involved.

For these reasons, to Jews the record of the Catholic establishment  is indelibly stained with, at worst, active collaboration or, at best, a passive acquiescence in the persecution and mass murder of Europe's Jews.

By equating the number of times a justice votes to overturn a law with pernicious "activism," he implies that the proper role of justices is passive acquiescence to whatever Congress serves up.

"For Palestinians there should be an alternative to either violent resistance or passive acquiescence to the occupation that can demonstrate that non-violent political, diplomatic and legal tools can produce results," said Daniel Levy of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

In the mesmerising narrative that follows, the basic situation of doing harm unto others is revolved in a series of episodes in which Deza implicates himself, directly or indirectly, deliberately or by passive acquiescence, in various acts of violence, the most dramatic and disturbing of which is a savage beating that he inflicts on his estranged wife's abusive lover.

[ 79] According to the DLHR the health professional should recognize that passive participation, or acquiescence, in violations of a patient's human rights is a breach of loyalty to the patient.

Malik has acquiesced, but acquiescence breeds rage.

As Felix begins to realise, his compulsion to manipulate the other protagonists in his psychodrama is more than a little domineering - some might call it passive aggressive - and Marisa's acquiescence is more than a little submissive.

For Beth, who lumps American imperialism with "the death camps that had nearly killed her father," passive resistance is tantamount to the acquiescence of the "good German".

In several stories, women come to accept the vices of husbands and lovers, their fondness for drink, their irresistibility to women, but acquiescence is not a passive act, a sign of defeat.