Sentence examples for passive participant from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, BAT could participate as a passive participant in the progression of breast cancer.

This could easily be interpreted as a 'lack of respect' for the passive participant, and result in lower participation as people would rather choose to stay away from such studies than face shortcomings.

What do you think of the role that Australia and other Five Eyes nations play – is it a passive participant or a more active player?

It will also have a huge impact as a training tool, and in various forms of therapy, where the viewer will be not just a passive participant but an active one as well.

For Ms. Rice, Annapolis reflects her evolution from passive participant to activist diplomat who has been willing to break with Mr. Cheney and other conservatives skeptical of an American diplomatic role in the Middle East.

His findings would seem to suggest the implausibility not only of Senator Craig's denial — that it was all a misunderstanding — but also of the policeman's assertion that he was a passive participant.

10 27 The findings of this study thus raise the question whether the quality of handovers is reduced when patients are passive participants, because they may lack the prerequisites for active participation.

Comparing our findings to studies on patient participation in decision-making 11 28 reveals that patients choose to be passive participants when their involvement may have a negative affect on the outcome of the decision, when decisions are complex, and, when patients were severely ill. 10 11 Patients with cancer preferred a shared or an active role.

Otherwise, Hastings has quarried the written accounts of active and passive participants in the war widely and, for the most part, rewardingly.

"It's a need for the community to show that we will not be passive participants to our own struggle," said Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

For too long, Pollan argues, flowers and food plants have been depicted as passive participants in the grand parade of coevolution -- mere ornaments on humanity's ever-gaudier floats.