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Passive in sentence

313 examples of Passive in a sentence

This one is passive, being a passenger on that train, and it's quite linear.
That's what happened to me when I noticed that we are moving from passive consumers to creators, to highly enabled collaborators.
So therefore, it rises up from passive torsion to active torsion, from 30 percent up to 80 percent.
I was a passive observer of the medical world.
That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.
The next one questions that and looks at passive nature, or passively trying to have reconfiguration programmability.
So the last project I'll show is called Biased Chains, and it's probably the most exciting example that we have right now of passive self-assembly systems.
So it takes the reconfigurability and programmability and makes it a completely passive system.
And for people like you, for other members of the public, it can mean not just being the passive consumers of news, but also coproducing news.
Whereas the passive recipient doesn't make the prediction, feels the full blow.
In the next mode, Rezero is passive, and we can move him around.
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images.
And it's not just passive structures, it's entire machines.
And that is that those museums are usually passive, they have passive relationships between the museum as the presenter and the audience, as the receiver of information.
In the country once known for its passive resignation, where, as bad as things got, only four percent expressed their opinion to a public official, today 90 percent tell us that if there's a problem in their community, it's up to them to fix it.
But even the best passive design wouldn't help.
And I also hope that you share the idea that if engineers and designers can use all these different climatic parameters, it will be possible to create really good and comfortable outdoor conditions, to change our thermal perception that we feel comfortable in an outdoor environment, and we can do that with the best passive design, but also using the energy source of the site in Qatar which is the sun.
They're open because they ask the audience to be a player, a protagonist, a partner, rather than a passive spectator, and they're open because they know that imagination cannot be contained in buildings, and so much of the work they do is site-specific or outdoor work.
When we start by teaching young people that we live, not in a passive society, a read-only society, but in a writable society, where we have the power to change our communities, to change our institutions, that's when we begin to really put ourselves on the pathway towards this open government innovation, towards this open government movement, towards this open government revolution.
This is not just a curiosity, because it changes not just the iconography as you see it, but the iconology, the meaning of the painting, and we believe this is a cool way, easy way, that everybody could have access to, to become more the protagonist of your own discovery, and not just be so passive about it, as we are when we walk through endless rooms of museums.
Contrast this to rooms that were designed using a sustainable passive design strategy where air came in from the outside through louvers.
And it's dependent on passive patients who just take it and don't ask any questions.
Now we're going to move to the second sentence, which says the same thing in the passive voice.
It failed partly because the courts are too passive, partly because the legislatures are corrupted, by which I don't mean that there's bribery operating to stop real change, but more the economy of influence that governs how Congress functions means that policymakers here will not understand this until it's too late to fix it.
We can't make our kids passive again.
So on the left, you see the bionic device worn by a lady, on the right, a passive device worn by the same lady, that fails to emulate normal muscle function, enabling her to do something everyone should be able to do: go up and down their steps at home.
If you can leverage this kind of passive information, just photos and video that are out there, that's the key to scaling to anyone.
And so this raises the question, and so, as Smith puts it, "When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?"
It's no longer the case that a few powerful elites control all the media and the rest of us are just passive receivers.
The perception of women's life in Gaza is passive.
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