Sentence examples for passive complicity from inspiring English sources

No more American involvement in Middle East wars but no more passive complicity in genocide.

But the administration also invited our passive complicity by requiring no shared sacrifice.

Many European and American diplomats have criticized the lack of police presence at the embassy before the attack, suggesting a degree of passive complicity.

The French interior minister has accused protesters against Emmanuel Macron's economic reforms of "passive complicity" with people who have smashed shops and banks and set fire to cars during demonstrations.

Phil Shearman, lead author of the study, said: "The unfortunate reality is that forests in Papua New Guinea are being logged repeatedly and wastefully with little regard for the environmental consequences and with at least the passive complicity of government authorities". The destruction will drive global warming, because tropical forests are an important store of carbon.

This was not a matter of passive complicity, but active participation.

To love evil is itself evil and constitutes a passive form of complicity.

"Passivity = Complicity," read another.

"President Duterte should understand that passive or active government complicity with those killings would contradict his pledge to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law".

The author shared with him her own rationale for having taken the risk of writing: the expiation of her personal complicity, however passive, however ignorant, in the Nazi atrocities.

In Bosnia, as in Rwanda, however, passive neutrality was tantamount to complicity with the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" and mass murder.