Sentence examples for passive government from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, the fundamental problem here was actually the result of a too passive government.

The obvious story line of this election, whoever wins, is that Americans want pragmatic solutions to the relentless distress they have experienced for over a decade, whether that means a more active or a more passive government.

She also fails to explain why the "job" of an "anti-war" movement is to attack its own passive government while parroting the arguments of a thuggish, illiberal power threatening its neighbour with invasion.10) The crisis in Ukraine has much to do with the situation in Syria, where major powers are intervening in the civil war.

Such is the oil information we are fed by the oil industry, a somnolent press and passive government agencies, all trying to make us feel better while we pay exorbitant rent for what we have foolishly let become a basic economic necessity.

For instance, a study that compared mortality estimates of deaths by passive government surveillance and active HDSS in Western Kenya found that although there was under-reporting of peri-natal deaths, the distribution of child deaths was similar across the two systems for children aged 1 – 59 months.

Even a passive Chinese government stake in USEC could draw attention in Washington for its strategic and diplomatic implications.

The point is, at every stage, what was a vibrant people-powered democracy has been bound and gagged, constrained into a weak and passive bought government.

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.

"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".

What you've seen, in the last year especially, is the problems associated with too much of a passive approach to government, thinking that it runs by itself, whether it be E-ZPass or auto emissions".

In a world seemingly full of citizens who are either apathetic or see themselves as passive recipients of government policy, active ownership of one's fate and that of their nation should be encouraged.