Sentence examples for passive agency from inspiring English sources
Ultimately, Freidson see the state as a passive agency in the practice of established professions, even in socialist countries (1970a, 1970b, 1984 , 1986 , 19942001).
Clarke never provided a satisfactory response to this charge; his best attempt is his claim that to deny this account would lead to accepting passive agency, which is a contradiction.
Such is the oil information we are fed by the oil industry, a somnolent press and passive government agencies, all trying to make us feel better while we pay exorbitant rent for what we have foolishly let become a basic economic necessity.
Although traditional SFL descriptions do not treat Sensers as Agents in the ergative model, it may be inappropriate in contexts so deeply concerned with semiotic action to simply preserve the lexicogrammar's treatment of mental action as more passive than material agency (Moore 2005; Thibault 1993).
The next-day story in the Los Angeles Times began this way: "A day of clashes between Israeli soldiers and protesters left 16 Palestinians dead". Again the passive voice obscured agency, and the word "clash" suggested a rough parity between the action on both sides, an exchange of equal blows.
For this reason, I contend that the growth of passive funds will exacerbate agency cost issues at corporations.
I tell my students to resist the passive voice, to place agency on their words, to link subject to object in a direct line of action.
Patient 11 also displayed a passive approach, lacking in agency by thinking it was an administrative requirement.
I mean, John Dingell was famous for his ability to turn oversight into a blunt object and the reason it can be so interventionist and not just sort of passive is that executive agencies have to prepare for the hearings.
In regulatory agencies worldwide, passive surveillance systems are employed to detect postmarketing ARs.
The agency hopes that passive acoustics can help identify breeding grounds in need of protection and can be used as a tool to assess population numbers accurately.
