Sentence examples for passive citizens from inspiring English sources
Part of the answer is that we need to raise our game and not become docile and passive citizens.
If we let that go, we will turn into cowed and passive citizens and lose any pride in ourselves.
A media monopoly and brutal intimidation are essential planks of this totalitarian platform.As for the "passive" citizens, no living Kazakh has ever experienced participatory democracy.
Sieyès' distinction between "active" (those eligible to vote) and "passive" citizens was adopted in decrees establishing property qualifications for voting thereby guaranteeing that power would be kept in the hands of the bourgeoisie.
By the terms of France's first post-1789 Constitution, all women were assigned the status of passive citizens; and French women did not achieve full citizenship until 1944.
However, the new laws also categorized all women (without exception) as passive citizens, a departure from old régime legal practice whereby women could sometimes vote and act as regents.
In a 'normal' society, there would not be repeated displays of state force against thousands of passive, peaceful citizens who were committing no crime other than bearing witness to their beliefs".
3. Free women had a passive citizen status, and only a very few manumitted slaves and aliens were, exceptionally, granted citizenship in any city.
The more political authority that is assigned to the Nocturnal Council, the more politically passive most citizens of Magnesia will be.
Post-WWII German leaders have been in the forefront in supporting projects to tie the continent together in peaceful ways that leave Germany in the position of a passive, good citizen.
The current environment of passive U.S. citizen response provided by this lack of understanding and misleading information is one where the essential oversights of public opinion are effectively defaulted upon, and in exchange, a predisposition to accept U.S. intervention in Venezuela exists.
