Sentence examples for public passivity from inspiring English sources

Egypt may be chaotic, but it is often joyfully so.However, there are also less attractive reasons for public passivity.

In many ways, relying on the local paper or TV station to define what was newsworthy contributed to public passivity.

The result is that public passivity cannot be taken for granted: one crisis, and the movement it generates, is likely to flow into others.

Then and for most of the coalition years, Britain has endured what the leftwing cultural critic Mark Fisher calls "depression economics and boomtime politics" – the survival despite hard times of a public passivity left over from the more comfortable Blair era.

When you boil it down, the lack of regulation of firearms is due to public passivity, and not the NRA?

She lulls opponents and the public into passivity with soothing and often bureaucratic expressions that smother controversies, offend nobody and reassure everybody.

Instead the students have offered an inspiration to a public largely stunned into passivity by the scale of government plans to dismantle Britain's welfare system and public services.

These obstacles must, however, be addressed and include resistance to legal change by the traditional healers, passivity of some public officials, lack of sufficient resources at the state level to sensitize the population, and the lack of knowledge of the law banning FGM.