Sentence examples for passive instruments from inspiring English sources

In the past, boards were too often passive instruments of the chief executive, and often included celebrities.

Electronic voltmeters differ from all other forms of analog voltmeters in being active rather than passive instruments.

Consisting of aluminum-coated Mylar balloons that were inflated after launching, the Echo satellites were passive instruments—i.e., they simply reflected radio waves back to Earth rather than actively receiving, amplifying, and retransmitting them.

Finally, some historians note that Arendt was also quite mistaken to dismiss the July 20 , 1944 German officers' assassination attempt against Hitler, which goes some distance toward refuting the idea that Hitler's servants have to be seen as passive instruments of his will.

Lewin prized long, rigorous papers that answered big questions – often representing years of research that would have yielded multiple papers in other venues – and, breaking with the idea that journals were passive instruments to communicate science, he rejected far more papers than he published.

With its primary focus on optical remote sensing using passive instruments, the editors have indeed succeeded in creating a book the scientific community has been waiting for.

"The woman is just a passive instrument of biology.

The art which half a century ago set out to change the world has become a passive instrument  of that world's malfunction.

It was a passive instrument made of layers of CR39® and Lexan®/Makrofol® nuclear track detectors; it had a geometric acceptance of ∼0.7 m2 sr for Fe nuclei.

Our mission objective is to design an altimeter satellite that uses GNSS-reflections, which means a dedicated receiver (passive instrument) onboard the satellite.

The penetration of diuron, a herbicide acting on photosynthesis, was monitored by the passive instrument for several days on a corn canopy.