Sentence examples for passive statements from inspiring English sources

These are all passive statements and people that guilt trip tend to be just that: passive.

Until recently, Spiers had only received frustratingly passive statements from government and legislative bodies, but last month, Spiers met with Environment Minister Mark H. Durkan to discuss how new procedures and legislation could be put in motion.

Use passive statements such as "I noticed the project wasn't completed in time" instead of active statements such as "You didn't complete the project".[7].

After Manning's arrest, F4J put out the daddy of all passive-aggressive statements.

If you leave out the by-phrase then the agent doesn't get specified, but that's often exactly the right way to phrase things, and doesn't imply any deviousness or evasiveness... Do government ministers use more passives in statements after policies fail?

"His season is prematurely ended and his focus will now be on getting ready for the next season," said PSV in a somehow passive-aggressive statement.

I don't think that was a passive-aggressive statement — like any truly unbiddable person, she simply moved on to what interested her more and didn't look back.

Richard also made a not-so-classy, passive-aggressive statement about this new product, as La Tribune noticed.

In response to the car trouble, Williams's campaign spokesman Seth Weathers put out a weird, passive-aggressive statement implying the school bus had somehow been sabotaged by Antifa.

Candidates need to speak up about the disability community, not with vague, passive, and patronizing statements about how they support disabled people, but with specific stances on legislation and initiatives that would be of interest to the millions of Americans who make up this demographic.

An apology statement with active responsibility was more likely to relieve public anger than an apology statement with passive responsibility.