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The mother, although she didn't hit her child, sat by passively as the father beat him.
The accused murderer listened passively to the testimony of the witness as she described the attack on her friend.
The officer looked on passively as the soldiers raped the women of the village.
When studying for a test, it is important to review actively, not passively.
Martin Luther King once said that to accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, thereby the oppressed become the oppressor.
Martin Luther King once said that he who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
Was it fear of the government that made so many Germans sit by passively while the Nazis murdered the Jews? Those stones and ice have no mercy in them, no sympathy with human adventure; they submit passively to what man can do; but let him go a step too far, let heart or hand fail, mist gather or sun go down, and they will exact the penalty to the uttermost.
Less fit to act actively, it would be more inclined to be passively impressed by influences, which are at present indeterminable; the transmission to the normal consciousness of the impressions perceived by the impersonal consciousness appears to take place in the same way as in a dream, that is to say by dramatisation,-by a scene which expresses the idea in a concrete and symbolical manner.
It would seem that it has been generally supposed that medicines,-bodies of active properties, and more or less peculiar construction,-are able to enter and to pass through a fluid which is still more complicated and changeable in nature than themselves, yet that while so doing they produce no impression upon it, but proceed passively to the solid tissues, or quietly pass out of the body, without ever leaving behind them any trace of their action.
) a son ought not to aid a parent actively or passively in escaping the punishment of crime: while others would consider this rule too inhuman to be laid down, and others would draw the line between assistance and connivance.
That is, the attainment of a given volume of head depends upon the development of the brain; the bone follows this development passively, is the index of it, the skeletal representation of it, but never the determining factor.
-In surprise, on the contrary, the entire labial zone is in repose, and there is complete and free contraction of one muscle alone, the frontal; consequently it produces longitudinal lines across the entire forehead, uplifting the eyebrows, which passively follow the elevation produced by the frontal muscle, forming two arches around which the wrinkles of the forehead form themselves in parallel lines.
I was a little curious to know who a mild bald gentleman in spectacles was, who dropped into a vacant chair (there was no top or bottom in particular) after the fish was taken away and seemed passively to submit himself to Borrioboola-Gha but not to be actively interested in that settlement.
Index funds, Miller pointed out, are passively managed, which is to say that they simply duplicate the S&P 500 in order to replicate the performance of the "market.
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