21.   It was often a byproduct of defense research, but the government played a passive role.

22.   Never mind the inconvenience to this argument posed by women designers, or the hardly passive role played by female consumers.

23.   Stanley, for whom the refinery was a passion, has been reduced to a largely passive role as one of five directors of the company that owns it.

24.   Teachers applying the Montessori method try to play a relatively passive role and to encourage their pupils to take the initiative in learning.

25.   The always likable Crystal is held hostage by a passive role that asks him to react for most of the movie.

26.   The administration claims that the law does not apply in this case because the United States played only a passive role in the Iranian arms shipments.

27.   The book urged women to embrace their sexuality, to become self-reliant and to repudiate the passive roles in which they have traditionally been cast.

28.   The Bosnian offensive and the Serbian response underscore how the United Nations has been reduced to an entirely passive role in Bosnia.

29.   The U.S. has taken a more passive role this time, and today Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin praised the multilateral aspect of the Thai package.

30.   We had some disagreements about what direction Aerolineas should take and, this goes back a few years, we withdrew into a passive role.