Sentence examples for passive for from inspiring English sources

Burnley, far too passive for comfort, never stood a chance.

Could it be that the rest of us are just too darn passive for our own good?

Common ground will be hard to find unless most Muslims can deplore, in their hearts, apologies of any kind, active or passive, for the killings of September 11th.

They have no personal memories of war's horror, yet they will soon face an economy with 40 percent unemployment and may not stay passive for long.

Meadows confesses he feels "trapped, immobile, passive"; for most of the book, he's largely humorless and given to sprees of guilt, self-loathing and self-pity.

The acknowledgment is passive for good reasons: an open confrontation, with a loved one or oneself, risks a major rupture or life change that could be more dire than the offense.

Our objective is to develop design procedures for passive tanks for roll reduction in rough seas.

These performances confer to M-SWCNT's great potential for passive applications for optical switching in optical networking.

In practice, we almost always used it for passives for which we could not determine transitivity versus intransitivity.

The area is a welcome resource for dynamic and passive activity for people who live or work in downtown Brooklyn.

She had been criticized for being too passive, questioned for acting too distracted, and prodded to produce a triple-triple.