Sentence examples for passive stance from inspiring English sources

South maintained his passive stance, when a penalty double would have been understandable.

But frustration with Barack Obama's passive stance over Syria bubbled over in the US state department in June.

With so many ideas pouring in, Kickstarter could adopt a passive stance and simply let "the Internet" take over.

This year, the Taliban are taking a "passive stance" toward cultivation, apparently putting less pressure on Afghan farmers to plant opium poppy.

I was already skeptical: an increase in offshore drilling, our government's passive stance at Copenhagen and the absence of any environmental legislation saw to that.

Local politics in the Muslim archipelago with a population of 400,000 look as tortured as ever.What has changed recently is India's passive stance.

"A passive policy stance that leaves to markets alone the direction of change will reinforce divides," the report said.

Japan tried to survive this difficult situation by the passive political stance but her existence itself had already become an important part of international politics regardless of her intentions.

Hogg was very gentle when discussing this with his stepdaughter, hoping to avoid treating her the way that Timothy Shelley had treated Percy Shelley years earlier, but Mary Shelley thought that Hogg took much too passive a stance.

It is regrettable that so many smart critics and composers elected at some point to adopt the defensive, (even passive) artistic stance that meandering note spinning is aesthetically superior to writing soulful melodic lines.

It was striking that virtually all of the respondents described the men as taking a passive, helpless stance to alcohol, alcohol treatment, and general health.