Obama "should take immediate action to stop settlement activity because the passivity of his position toward settlements is happening while the very last option of a two-state solution is being killed by Israeli settlements, " said Mustafa Barghouti, a leading Palestinian activist.
There are three reasons for this: the Russian people's history of passivity, lack of funding and old-fashioned repression.
Whether they mean to or not, those who advocate a U.S. policy of passivity in the face of a repressive Iranian government (either today's or tomorrow's) play into the hands of such a regime by supporting a course of action that supports its agenda - not ours.
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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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.
Which brings us to the dangers of intellectual as well as military passivity in the face of terrorism.
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These are comfortable doctrines of passivity, well suited to these comfortable and complacent times.
We now see proof that the Clinton policy of passivity was wrong.
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.
Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations at Dartmouth College, believes that passivity may be a symptom of shell shock.
The authorities have shown a disturbing passivity in the face of attacks on churches and mosques of certain minority sects.
This uncertainty is heightened by the US's passivity in the face of the uprising against its worst foe in the Arab world.
But passivity in the face of egregious crimes by the state or by guerrillas is a poor foundation on which to build the rule of law something which many Latin American democracies still lack.
The thing most wrong with present-day Republicanism is its passivity in the face of the economic crisis, its indifference to the economic troubles of the huge majority of the American population, and its blithe insistence that everything was fine for the typical American worker up until Inauguration Day 2009 or (at the outer bound of the thinkable) the financial crisis of the fall 2008.
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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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He has taken to task those in positions of power who, by their passivity or active support, are enabling the steady advance of such enemies, both abroad and here.
All that was necessary for the downfall of communism, he used to say, was for the barriers of fear and passivity to fall.
Is it too much to hope that President Obama is privately ashamed of his inattention and passivity that night?
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President Obama's passivity before the threatened foreign prosecution of Bush administration officials achieves by inaction what he fears doing directly.
All these (existing or incipient) crises are being met by an America response whose fecklessness and passivity seems as much a reflection of a determination not to endanger defense budget cuts as it is a failure to appreciate their full implications.
It can only be hoped, however, that these are the last times when the U.S. government will ignore the lessons of the Holocaust and of Waco and Srebrenica opting for the path of least resistance, passivity and talk rather than early, decisive and if necessary forceful action aimed at preventing such needless carnage.
It can only be hoped, however, that these are the last times when the U.S. government will ignore the lessons of the Holocaust -- and of Waco and Srebrenica -- opting for the path of least resistance, passivity and talk rather than early, decisive and if necessary forceful action aimed at preventing such needless carnage.
This strategy will work because it changes the default behavior of busy people from political passivity to activism.
"This is a significant and dramatic indicator of the Obama administration's passivity, " said Sen.
With its passivity, the Administration is sowing the seeds of unnecessary trouble.
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.
Syria successfully digested Lebanon, but only because of Iranian support, American acquiescence and Israeli passivity.
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