Sentence examples for passive player from inspiring English sources

And we are left to wonder: Who was that sad, passive player Wednesday impersonating Novak Djokovic?

Mr. Arnell has been the catalyst for the new company, but he said that Mr. Ali, a longtime friend, was far from a passive player.

"In fact if you have to attach urgency to the task of dealing with one or the other, the more urgent task would be Hezbollah and Iran - Assad has almost become a passive player here.

In fact throughout the sharp-elbowed wrangle in train over exactly who – tarnished high-end coach; or tarnished high-end batsmen – gets to survive the wreckage of an Ashes whitewash, England's limited-overs coach has remained a significant passive player, if only as the most obvious pretender should Andy Flower leave his post.

A comparison: During a 2001 fourth-round Wimbledon match against Sampras, Federer played 109 serve-and-volley points; when he beat Murray in last year's Wimbledon final, he played 11. "I had to become a more passive player, to keep the ball in play," he told me at Wimbledon.

(If you're not running that syndicated deal you're in, you're a passive player).

We are simply never going to be "passive players" in our environments.

In fact, the Vietnamese were anything but puppets or passive players in their war; they shaped American actions in Vietnam as well as the global cold war order.

The Democrats haven't just been passive players in the recent racial polarization of the parties: Rather, they've embraced and furthered the trend, as a necessary part of making their new presidential-level "coalition of the ascendant" work.

While up to now consumers were considered passive players, a new generation of automated demand response emerges, where consumers can react on real-time prices, on grid parameters like frequency or on transport schedules, in terms of their energy consumption.

Sinn Fein are not passive players in this crisis.