Sentence examples for passive agents from inspiring English sources

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.

It's my job".' Critics of the view of the courts as passive agents of the legislature claim that it understates the difficulty of interpretation, the indeterminacy of both the language and the will of the citizens, and the resulting discretion of the judge.

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).

Popular perception views Tibet as a passive agent, receiving Mongol and Manchu aid for military affairs.

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.

Our racially stratified postsecondary education system serves as a passive agent that mimics and magnifies the race-based inequities it inherits from the K-12 education system and projects them into the labor market.

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 each of these cases, Brooks is figured as a passive agent with respect to Black Arts; she "submits" to its rhetoric, where alternative figures such as Baraka and Giovanni construct and reconstruct its epistemology.