Sentence examples for passive terms from inspiring English sources

This failure is often framed in passive terms: as negligence, an overattachment to an oil-rich status quo, or a simple unwillingness to deal with problems that seem far in the future.

The effective conductance g L includes information not only about the original leak conductance G L but also about the voltage-dependent ("passive") terms of the ionic currents.

In most American communities, for example, the male gender role is typically understood and described in active as opposed to passive terms.

Trust seems to have become an active rather than passive term.

Indeed, it was foolish of the Cameron government to allow the seemingly passive term "remain" to define the potential future of the U.K. in Europe rather than asserting an active goal for building a better future.

Genocide is not only accompanied by denial from the start but expresses itself in the most passive of terms: these crimes "happened" (if they happened) rather than being committed.

That's another advantage that real Home has, since it's entirely passive in terms of voice activation, but this DIY kit is fully customizable so you can build on whatever functionality you can feasibly dream up.

Perhaps because their children are not in the ECEC system for a long period of time, parents are quite passive in terms of creating reform in the childcare sector.

The active distribution network differentiates from the passive in terms of bi-directionality of power flow, power electronics converter based generation, high fault level variability, etc. Plethoric DG penetration as well as DER placement has notable impacts on protection, operation, reliability and control of the power system [2].

Behavioural categories were grouped as considered relevant for seed dispersal: moving vs. feeding vs. other categories (mostly passive in terms of displacement).

Immunological memory can be in the form of either passive short-term memory or active long-term memory.