Sentence examples for passive agent from inspiring English sources

In his new capacity as the ally of the ego in its struggle against the id and the superego, the analyst (paradoxically) became an even more passive agent in the therapeutic relationship.

In this nondiscriminatory discriminatory awareness, no ego is posited either as an active or a passive agent in constituting things of experience as this awareness renders useless the active-passive scheme as an explanatory model.

Roots are not merely a passive agent that grow in a challenging environment: roots are engaged in a tremendous number of interactions with soil, which change soil properties and enhance its biotic component.

In response, Clarke argues that if Leibniz is right then a free agent would be merely passive because determined to do what reason presents, but a "passive agent" is a contradiction since the concept of agency includes the concept of activity.

Dillon was charged under the White Slave Act with attempting to take into the country a woman who was not his wife, and Lloyd was charged with being a passive agent.

In their different ways these are far from being merely passive agents through which market forces are transmitted into human behaviour.

In individual learning process, the independent agents cannot observe one another's actions, i.e., for each player, the opponents are passive agents.

The crazy thing is it seems that we are all passive agents allowing companies like Verizon and AT&T to take control of our lives.

Writing in the Guardian, Kehinde Andrews accuses the show of "fawning over the naked and prostrate black body" (two of the performers are topless) and of reproducing "the idea that black people are passive agents to be used as conduits for white people to speak to each other".

The causal agents and the mechanisms that collaborate to produce aging can be divided into two groups: passive agents inducing tissue damage which are not properly repaired and which accumulate throughout life (damage-based theories), and genetic agents that actively alter the physiological behavior of cells (programmed theories).

These results suggest the potential of the anti-M2e human MAb with broad binding spectrum as a universal passive immunotherapeutic agent to infection by influenza A virus.