Sentence examples for passive conduits from inspiring English sources

Passive conduits should not.

Until recently, many stock analysts were content to act as well-dressed but passive conduits, conveying information from companies to favored investors.

Where Child and Sharp condescended to folk music's creators as passive conduits of a static, immemorial tradition, John Lomax and his doubly influential son, Alan, honored them as active producers of an evolving one.

With that ability comes the growing possibility that the Justice Department will view search engines as more than mere passive conduits of information, and instead as potentially active participants in conduct that may violate the law.

Nonparenchymal endothelial or mesenchymal cells not only form passive conduits, but also establish an organogenic stimulus.

In addition, it is now known that blood vessels are not merely passive conduits for the delivery of oxygen and nutrients.

I am the passive conduit for this strange tripartite conversation.

Our minds are simply a passive conduit for an unknown, indifferent force.

That was not Summers's obvious strong suit; he has always been interested in affecting policy with his own opinions, not acting as a passive conduit for every perspective.

Revealing more by the way she elicits other people's stories than by what she says about her own life, she can seem like a passive conduit for the perceptions of others.

Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, in a dissenting statement, struck a note of caution, suggesting that the Web site was more than "a passive conduit of this defamatory material," and adding, "An interpretation that immunizes a business's complicity in defaming a direct competitor takes us so far afield from the purpose of the CDA as to make it unrecognizable".