Passively

This is excluding the damage tobacco causes to the environment and the unborn babies whose mothers are active smokers or the innocent mothers who inhale the poison passively from the cigarettes smoke exhaled by their husbands, without knowing its ill effects on their baby. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the other hand, the married woman, having once yielded all, tends to remain passively in the man's companionship. ❋ Unknown (1918)

That, however, doesn't mean that attacks on any other group should be accepted passively, which is something that many of us in the U.S. have done way too often and for way too long when it comes to anti-immigrant rhetoric, for example. ❋ Mariela Dabbah (2011)

"What Heidegger has in mind… is that in our recognition of a house, our synthesis… is effected passively, that is, not through an act of volition." ❋ Abel, Lionel (1965)

What Heidegger has in mind, though, is that in our recognition of a house, our synthesis of its various aspects is effected passively, that is, not through an act of volition. ❋ Abel, Lionel (1965)

There are some women such as Marie Boyer and Gabrielle Fenayrou, who may be described as passively criminal, chameleon-like, taking colour from their surroundings. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The obedience due to that power is by divine command; and subjects are bound, both as men and as Christians, to obey the magistrate actively in all things where their duty to God intercedes not, and however passively, that is, either by leaving their countrey, or if they cannot do that (the magistrate, or the reason of their own occasions hindring them), then by suffering patiently at home, without giving the least publick disturbance. ❋ Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 (1905)

Due to this, index funds are known as passively managed funds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

BSE etc these funds buy stock in the same ratio they are in the said exchanges. these are therefore also called passively managed funds as there is not much work to do by selecting stocks which should be in or out of the MF. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I want to record the live signal I press "Record" on my DVD-HDD remote and it begins recording the live television signal passively, that is to say, it does not cause any delay at all in the signal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

F1 driver Massa communicating "passively" and showing "positive signs" after medical scans Massa communicating 'passively'BUDAPEST, Hungary - Felipe Massa's health was improving Monday after the Formula One driver communicated passively with doctors, and medical scans provided encouraging signs after surgery on multiple skull fractures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In recent months, there has been a "clear shift" in China toward finding the means to offer investors ways of investing in domestic and foreign securities "passively," or in ways that don't subject an investor to a stock picker's ability, according to Peter Alexander, principal at Z-Ben Advisors, a Shanghai advisory firm. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But whereas diseases spread passively, meaning people rarely try to infect each other, viral ideas, also known as "memes" spread by harnessing the human desire to share what we know and to learn from each other. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the residents of Silverlake decided they wanted to keep their reservoir above-ground where they could enjoy the view and 'passively' recreating around its perimeter, the below-ground tanks planned for Silverlake were unceremoniously dumped into Griffith Park without any public process. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It its original form, general covariance was understood "passively"; that is, as a freedom to describe structures in spacetime by means of arbitrarily chosen coordinate systems. ❋ Norton, John D. (2008)

This looks back to the much misunderstood tradition in Anglican thinking of an earlier century about 'passive obedience': if government enacts what the conscientious believer cannot accept, the believer obeys 'passively', accepting that if he or she breaks the law they will legally and legitimately suffer the consequences, but still refusing to act in any way that could support the general enforcing of a specific law that is problematic. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wherever we live, I think we can all agree that loving the Earth needs to be something we do more actively than passively, which is why we’ve asked Gemma Bulos, founder and executive director of A Single Drop, to tell us a bit about her organization. ❋ Unknown (2009)