Passivity in a sentence

As state lawmakers continue to hack away at Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act, the response from members of the public and the news media has been confounding passivity.

Cooper ambles around up there for another 20 seconds or so then goes back into defence, now a back four after Joe Bryan hd come on for Ryan Longman and Romain Esse for Norton-Cuffy, the two wing-backs obviously paying the price for perceived passivity.

Georgian props are not known for their passivity in defence, but they found their match in Koroibete who smashed through two of them.

Impartiality is important, but it must not mean neutrality, still less passivity.

I think it's still very passive, and I suspect that that passivity is partly a function of fear of speaking out.

The chairperson of Pick n Pay, Gareth Ackerman, has slammed the government for what he called its passivity in dealing with South Africa’s structural economic problems.

With a new round of military action in Ukraine shortly to kick off, it will be in Putin’s interest to move from passivity to financial aggression.

It’s an enigmatic phrase, but one assumes that in the mid-70s, a time frame still close enough to the Holocaust, it might have referred to a kind of passivity, accommodation, or Jewish self-denial.

It should be noted that a similar passivity reigned over the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party as late as October 1917, the very month they took power.

Their passivity hurts America too.

We’re on watch and we rebuke the passivity and the unbelief.

Even though Haida's passivity can cause many problems for him, he won't ever heistate when it comes to protecting those who are important to him.

It’s a bias for passivity, It's directly connected.

It’s always watchable when Pfeiffer is around to delight in overplaying Frances’ imperious theatrical grandiosity, and Hedges has long been good at playing characters who have a kind of interesting passivity.

As my colleague Maya Singer noted in this is the era of “casting pluralism,” in which difference, not uniformity, and personality, not passivity, are valued.

But the passivity in the face of Trump's corruption and lawbreaking was creating its own political problems.

It prizes passivity at a time when entrepreneurial zeal is crucial for personal fulfillment and creative collab.

Mr Hastie, the chairman of the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, warned Australia's "passivity is dangerous" amid the global threats.

Now, unbound by time and living in a reality which abides by the laws of nature, the ghost must watch in passivity as history plays out before its eye-holes.

These common dreams – Wait for the Great Day When We Arise and Smite Our Oppressors – are distractions from contemplating our passivity and apathy (the core cause of our problems).