Sentence examples for passive status from inspiring English sources

That promise to keep the inquiry open, even in a passive status, was deemed a victory by members of Congress who had urged the Pentagon to declassify the reports.

She puts up with her passive status grumpily (Swank's mouth turns downward in irritation), but George Putnam Richard Geree), the publishing heir and public-relations genius who set up Earhart's passage, turns her into a national celebrity, with her own line of clothes and luggage.

Some interpreters, already in India, were dissatisfied with this "passive" status of perception.

As Laura Mulvey puts it, women are assigned the passive status of being looked-at, whereas men are the active subjects who look (Mulvey 1989).

For the outcome on work status we present the results in terms of active status (job, part or full time) versus passive status (sick leave, rehabilitation or disability pension).

Yahoo missed out on every tech trend of the past few years: social networking, location service, group deals, passive gaming, status updates.

The simulations of vibration analysis are obtained in time and frequency domains and compared with passive controlled status.

3. Free women had a passive citizen status, and only a very few manumitted slaves and aliens were, exceptionally, granted citizenship in any city.

Active or passive smoking status was assessed using a self-administered questionnaire.

Passive smoking status was defined as both current smoking behavior using an environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) questionnaire [ 34] and lifetime ETS exposure [ 35].

We used self-reported current passive exposure status, assuming that this would reflect past exposure, although this may have changed over time.