As a practical matter, though, the Afghan government has displayed little leadership in this area, and so the de-facto policy has been passivity.
She was warned repeatedly that the university's handling of this issue was a catastrophe, and still the policy – of utter passivity in the face of crisis – remains unchanged.
The Obama adviser's message is surely not that passivity is a foreign policy virtue.
But now that total financial collapse has been averted, all the urgency seems to have vanished from policy discussion, replaced by a strange passivity.
That policy has led to extraordinary prosecutorial passivity in the face of overwhelming evidence.
"Moderation in foreign policy is neither surrender nor conflict, neither passivity nor confrontation.
There's been a lot of talk lately from former Obama administration officials like Leon Panetta and Robert Gates about what they perceive to be "passivity" or blunders on foreign policy matters by the president.
Gossip, for a city poet, is really a form of passivity, part of a larger open-border policy toward whatever comes her way.
The British defend their passivity by pointing out that many EU policies and institutions only work by not including all members the Schengen passport-free zone, defence co-operation, the planned EU patent.
Does the passive voice underscore the person's passivity?
