Sentence examples for passive by from inspiring English sources

Whites in Ms. Walker's art often seem passive by comparison, but racial fates are intertwined.

Others argue that such sites will make us less passive by making us more aware of how we behave online.

"Most meeting rooms are passive by design," said Dr. Tom McDonald, president of a business communications consulting firm bearing his name in San Diego.

The republican leader, seen as a key architect of the peace process, also accused both the British and Irish governments of being too passive by not pushing nationalists and unionists towards a new agreement on those outstanding issues.

The participant is rendered passive by the instructions, yet they also become the protagonist in their own private drama of dead phones, relayed messages and half-glimpsed traces of other lives.

Often her hero is a sad-sack fellow, detached or passive by nature, vaguely aware that his youthful dreams have eluded him and that he's settled for a dreary, making-do existence.

Stroma cells, long believed to be passive by-standers, can undergo mutations that drive them to contribute to tumor progression: p53 mutations, for instance, have been detected in stromal fibroblasts in 40% of the tumors analyzed, prevalent even in the absence of p53 mutations in the tumor epithelial cells, and these mutations predicted lymphnode metastasis [ 20].

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Environmental noise was attenuated by passive shielding, by the gradiometer geometry of the primary sensors and by application of the synthetic 3rd order gradient.

My question is, Who or what was better served by her passive execution by water deprivation rather than by the first alternative?