Sentence examples for passive personalities from inspiring English sources

The M&M's characters have been around since 1954, but they had pleasant, passive personalities, all but begging consumers to eat them.

The latter requires that the prospective students do some soul searching by asking if they are independent, if they are followers or leaders, if they have active or passive personalities, and so on.

Mr. Eason was nonverbal, typically needed assistance walking, and was known for his calm, mostly passive personality, said one person familiar with him who requested anonymity to discuss matters protected by privacy laws.

It does not surprise her that Calhoun's biggest gripe about her son is his passive personality.

Cosby then goes on to say: "I can't judge at this time what she knows about herself for 19 years, a passive personality".

"The passive personality of this woman in whom I could detect neither freshness nor charm, or anything especially refined, suited me down to the ground," he says.

The passive personality principle allows states, in limited cases, to claim jurisdiction to try a foreign national for offenses committed abroad that affect its own citizens.

The protective principle, which is included in the hostages and aircraft-hijacking conventions and the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (1994), can be invoked by a state in cases where an alien has committed an act abroad deemed prejudicial to that state's interests, as distinct from harming the interests of nationals (the passive personality principle).

For example, when in 1985 the United States attempted to arrest the hijackers on the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro because of the brutal shipboard murder of American citizen Leon Klinghoffer, the claimed jurisdiction of the U.S. over the hijackers may have been based on passive personality.

Whether authorities in the U.S. will invoke the passive personality principle has yet to be decided.

Whether authorities in the U.S. will invoke the passive personality principle is yet to be decided.