"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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The side-effect was to expunge first the liberals and then reduce the moderates to passivity.
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However, President Obama learnt the hard way that dull passivity hardly goes down well either.
In Mitrovica, for example, NATO's passivity has effectively allowed the Serbs to partition the town.
Their goal was to prevent war by imposing strategic nuclear passivity on the United States.
Syria successfully digested Lebanon, but only because of Iranian support, American acquiescence and Israeli passivity.
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.
There are three reasons for this: the Russian people's history of passivity, lack of funding and old-fashioned repression.
Which brings us to the dangers of intellectual as well as military passivity in the face of terrorism.
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This strategy will work because it changes the default behavior of busy people from political passivity to activism.
Is it too much to hope that President Obama is privately ashamed of his inattention and passivity that night?
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Otherwise uncertainty turns to passivity, and resentments are a drag on the work.
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The authorities have shown a disturbing passivity in the face of attacks on churches and mosques of certain minority sects.
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.
But following the Clinton Administration's policy of passivity has coincided with a trend away from freedom and the rule of law.
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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".
With its passivity, the Administration is sowing the seeds of unnecessary trouble.
This uncertainty is heightened by the US's passivity in the face of the uprising against its worst foe in the Arab world.
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.
The counter-argument is that the U.S. lost all leverage with Iraq's government because of Mr. Obama's passivity toward the place and its problems.
All that was necessary for the downfall of communism, he used to say, was for the barriers of fear and passivity to fall.
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