1.   But in doing so they have a way of painting the pope as a passive observer.

2.   Greenspan would like us to think that he is a passive observer, with the market raising long-term rates and the Fed just following along.

3.   It creates situations that allow you to be a participant, not a passive observer.

4.   Second, mutual funds are not passive observers.

5.   Several of the ministers acknowledged in interviews that they had been passive observers as divorce gathered momentum in their congregations.

6.   The Doctor belongs to a race of aliens called Time Lords, passive observers from a place called Gallifrey.

7.   The e-mail exchange represented the clearest suggestion to date that USOC officials were more than passive observers in offering inducements to win the votes of IOC members.

8.   Those writers tend to be participants in our civic life, not passive observers.

9.   Women in Turkey have more freedom than their counterparts in other Muslim countries, but in the southeast the culture remains more conservative and women are passive observers.

10.   Yet while the children are frequently on screen, as passive observers of the dramas surrounding them, they are not the real stars of the movie.