Sentence examples for usually passive from inspiring English sources

Couples are usually passive, pleading.

Sometimes the usually passive Mike takes a more active, entrepreneurial role.

IT WAS an act of brinkmanship not often associated with the usually passive Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president.

Power-play goals by the Devils on three consecutive manpower advantages proved the difference in a game of such high intensity that even Scott Gomez, the usually passive rookie of the Devils, got into a fight.

Years afterwards, the very mention of his name still had the power to drive this usually passive woman into a rage; in 1998, she claimed he had sadistically abused her.

The measure passed today must be approved by a newly created and usually passive Senate as well as a Constitutional Council before being signed into law by King Norodom Sihanouk.

PICTURES of hunger usually show passive eyes and swollen bellies.

The main historical lesson of financial crises is that governments are usually too passive.

"Fundamentally it takes what is usually a passive experience, listening to music, and it makes it an active experience for people," he said.

Homeowners whose property adjoins the strip of waterfront land owned by the Malba Association are usually permitted passive use of the beachfront, said Nicholas Kaizer, the group's vice president.

Preparation of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) usually involves passive incubation.