Sentence examples for passive interest from inspiring English sources

Twitter can claim better than passive interest when it shows an ad.

The hot-pink ribbon drew, at best, passive interest yesterday from those gathered at the Grand Army Plaza subway stop in Brooklyn.

Mr. Berman, who became chairman of Alpha last year, said the company removed Mr. Tollman and the others from their posts and converted their stake in Alpha into a passive interest to satisfy regulators and allow Alpha to continue.

He owns a tiny, passive interest in five buildings in or near the West Side of Manhattan, although his assets were placed in a blind trust when he became deputy mayor last January.

But officials familiar with the details said Goldman had sold about two-thirds of its $300 million bridge loan to Sumitomo Bank Ltd., which owns a 12.5percentt passive interest in Goldman.

"The brief notice which appeared in the telegraphic news at that time aroused a passive interest which had existed from my childhood," wrote Wilbur, "and led me to take down from the shelves of our home library a book on animal locomotion by Prof Marey which I had already read several times... we soon passed from the reading to the thinking stage, and finally to the working stage".

Don't include passive interests like watching TV, solitary hobbies that can be perceived as you lacking in people skills.

"His retention of passive interests is in accordance with the commissioner's advice and poses no real or potential conflict of interest.

Current tax rules discourage investors from purchasing passive interests in limited partnerships that lend money to small business.

Being in the grip of forward-looking pursuits is important, but we have passive interests as well, which make a more extensive past preferable.

Engaging in such pursuits has its own value; for many of us, these pursuits, and not passive interests, are central to our identities.