31.   While Western airlines are increasingly welcome in the former Soviet Union as potential partners or owners, governments have been unwilling to play a passive role.

32.   Yeltsin was unremittingly attacked for his passive role in the worst modern hostage attack on Russian soil.

33.   But Griffiths determined that the guests, simply by their presence, may have had a passive role in the tragedy.

34.   But suspicions have been raised that security forces or government-armed militias may have had at least a passive role in violence.

35.   Demands for an independent inquiry were spurred by suggestions that the army or government-armed self-defense forces might have had at least a passive role in some massacres.

36.   National policy In Malaysia, banks once played a rather passive role in the drive to attract foreign investors.

37.   Questions have been raised as to whether the army played an at least passive role in some massacres which occurred within the sight of military posts.

38.   Some countries and international human rights groups have suggested that the army or government-armed self-defense forces might have had at least a passive role in some massacres.

39.   Some countries and international human rights groups have suggested that the army or the self-defense forces might have had at least a passive role in some massacres.

40.   The legal action, if taken, would be an extraordinary move and a sharp departure from the traditionally passive role stock holders play in Japan.