We cannot passively see ourselves as victims.

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.

Kitty blushed with joy, long and silently pressing her new friend's hand, which lay passively in hers.

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

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

In a society where the enormous majority of people collaborated passively, active collaboration is hard to discern from passive.

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.

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.

While this was happening, the European Union that has for so long dangled the carrot of club membership in front of Turkey stood by passively.

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.

Its power consumption was moderate (with some consuming as little as 3 watts at 1 GHz and 7 watts at 1.5 GHz), so it could be passively cooled.

But, because we can be manipulated or deceived or even just passively tempted, free markets also persuade us to buy things that are good neither for us nor for society.

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.

But we must refuse to bow before the altar of tolerance when it comes to what is truly unacceptable, wherever it occurs, and this is what the world is witnessing passively in Afghanistan.

The support for the Assad regime and the military operation in Syria is based on the public position of the Russian authorities, which is passively shared by a significant section of Russian society.

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.

What does a bill like PIPA SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

Although much of The Lucifer Effect examines how easy it is for ordinary people to be seduced into engaging in evil deeds, or to be passively indifferent to the suffering of others, the deeper message is a positive one.

The challenge facing the al Saud is to include at the heart of the political system the peoples they have shunned for decades. Unless they begin to do so, these peoples will drift into the camp of the fanatics if not as active terrorists than as passive supporters, much as the Catholic community in Northern Ireland passively embraced IRA terrorism as a way to end their exclusion from political life in the province.