Sentence examples for passive in the wake of from inspiring English sources

Too many of the nation's major institutional investors -- who manage the life savings of working Americans and who are major shareholders in the big banks -- have been silent and passive in the wake of the crisis.

He advocated a form of passive resistance, even in the wake of the Peterloo massacre of 1819, when cavalry charged at a demonstration on the outskirts of Manchester, killing eleven people: "And if then the tyrants dare, / Let them ride among you there, / Slash, and stab, and maim, and hew — / What they like, that let them do".

Mr. Beavan comes across as a passive-aggressive zealot, and when — in the wake of an article in The New York Times about the family — his wife receives messages from strangers urging her to dump him, it's hard not to see their point.

Over the last year, in the wake of my own marital disintegration, I had contemplated a kind of passive suicide myself.

Today, in the wake of the C.E.O.

In the wake of the report, Maj.

Fatigue grows in the wake of fairness.

In the wake of European colonization, indigenous depopulation was severe.

Wake characteristics of a single wind-turbine model in the wake of those four various terrain models are then studied.

In the wake of the I.M.F.

In the wake of Erie, however, a keener understanding developed.