"This is a significant and dramatic indicator of the Obama administration's passivity, " said Sen.
In recent years, corporate governance advocates have pushed for reforms to combat this passivity.
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However, President Obama learnt the hard way that dull passivity hardly goes down well either.
These are comfortable doctrines of passivity, well suited to these comfortable and complacent times.
Yet the members of Indonesia's parliament do not seem exercised about the president's passivity.
Finally, she sinks into utter passivity, immobilized in a glass coffin, waiting for her prince to come.
Which brings us to the dangers of intellectual as well as military passivity in the face of terrorism.
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Otherwise uncertainty turns to passivity, and resentments are a drag on the work.
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Local councils have received more than 8, 000 applications to close roads for street parties, suggesting that 2002's passivity is fading.
The problem with this passivity is that union-negotiated collective-bargaining agreements are often the biggest barrier to enacting these education reforms.
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Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations at Dartmouth College, believes that passivity may be a symptom of shell shock.
President Obama's passivity before the threatened foreign prosecution of Bush administration officials achieves by inaction what he fears doing directly.
Hillary would never forget the experience of that first lady, and her wifely passivity at the trauma her husband put her through.
We now see proof that the Clinton policy of passivity was wrong.
But he said the move to renewables: "will not happen through passivity".
Either of these approaches might be better than today's squabbling and passivity.
The report repeatedly describes the committee's passivity and inaction in damning terms.
And if that passivity catches up with them, Carlin's satellite-linked EKG machine or a robotic catheterization lab might be just a 20-minute mule ride away.
The downside of his appealing gentleness is a sort of moral passivity that makes him blindly accepting of the world and his place in it.
But, for now, his relative passivity may be the best tactic.
It was the worst of both worlds as a fatal passivity was perceptible when, ironically, an admission of error could have communicated a corporate fiber of sterner stuff.
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People who report seeing representations of passivity or helplessness in the blots are thought to have a dependent personality, meaning they rely on others to satisfy their needs.
British politicians can be forgiven a degree of passivity, then.
And try using the passivity defense when the judge orders you to pay child support, or purchase health insurance for one of your kids, or buy accident insurance before you drive.
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He apologised to Jews for Catholic passivity during the Holocaust, prayed at a Syrian mosque and took steps to heal the rift between Catholics and adherents of the various eastern Orthodox churches.
Penalties for passivity and stalling are more severe.
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There is no passivity exclusion in the Constitution.
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