Others have stood by passively.

AK It has ears that move passively when the head goes.

He taught me to confront harsh reality rather than to submit to it passively.

And determine the policies we want, instead of passively accepting miles of box drains and hampers.

It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.

The use of force to settle scores and impose one nation s will upon another cannot be accepted passively.

Coerced into feeling the need to atone to China, Japan passively tolerated recent episodes of worrying Chinese behavior.

A gas plume that is warmer than the surrounding air will passively emit light characteristic of its chemical constituents.

Both leaders can count on the other not to create additional problems, and even to help passively on geopolitical questions.

Instead of waiting passively for sanctions, Iran s leaders decided to start a Middle East crisis by organizing attacks against Israel.

Nor is it likely that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and others will sit passively while the Persian Shia gain the bomb.

It has a vital role in Afghanistan indeed, it was passively supportive of the removal of the Taliban from power in 2001.

The army of Serbia and Montenegro continues to hamper, both actively and passively, the cooperation of Serbia and Montenegro with the ICTY.

We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the top of trucks, causing a riot. Hustlers thrive, the weak watch passively.

Communism, we are told, was only one of the dead ends of Western rationalism therefore, it was sufficient to wait passively for it to fail.

If the United States wants to be seriously involved in a renewed peace initiative, it can neither ignore nor passively accept the hierarchy of Israeli emotions.

She claims that the State party passively neglected its positive obligations under the Convention and supported the continuation of a situation of domestic violence against her.

The degree of this amplification can become severe for users that passively accept information to then pass it on to others, forgoing any process of factual scrutiny.

Moreover, it appears that whatever contribution rate the employer chooses tends to be accepted passively by the employee, as does whatever investment allocation (between stocks and bonds, for example) is established.

When the quality of an institution or a political system decreases, its members can withdraw ( exit ), improve the situation through direct action ( voice ), or passively accept the decline in conditions ( loyalty ).

The country s Shia footprint stretches from the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush. It has a vital role in Afghanistan indeed, it was passively supportive of the removal of the Taliban from power in 2001.

The hostile media effect illustrates notions of the active media audience, in demonstrating that audiences do not passively receive media content but instead selectively interpret it in light of their own values and predispositions.

One is quasi active, like the flu example I gave, where we get some people to nominate their friends and then passively monitor their friends do they have the flu, or not? and then get warning.

But news organizations could reach many more people if they worked to circumvent Internet filtering instead of passively relying on those inside the firewall to figure out how to reach beyond blocked sites on their own.

The US and Saudi Arabia have been passively calling for a peaceful transition yet continue to support Saleh, militarily and financially, thus supporting his regime to quell the anti government protest and allowing their crimes to continue.

What I mean by that is that it passively observes people as they live their lives. It scans the world's blogs and looks at what people are writing, and these people don't know they're being watched or interviewed.

The philosophy of sumud is rooted in Palestinians implacable belief in the righteousness of their cause and the justness of their methods. It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.

The outside world, which relies on the dollar as its primary trade vehicle and therefore reserve asset, cannot be expected to watch passively as dollars continue to pour into their currency, commodity, and asset markets, with no clear end in sight.

And what I want to show you is actually this is one of the components of it that we've just recently been testing which is a solar chimney we have got 17 of them now put around New York at the moment that passively draws air up.

But if employers actually enroll their employees automatically in the plan, telling them that they can drop out at any time simply by notifying the employer, a large majority of employees will just accept the plan. Moreover, it appears that whatever contribution rate the employer chooses tends to be accepted passively by the employee, as does whatever investment allocation (between stocks and bonds, for example) is established.