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Meanings of remain passive in English

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Usage of remain passive in English
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If you tried to do that you could not remain passive long.
The Hidden Places
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Meanwhile I remain passive-for which Wagner will thank me later on.
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 / from Paris to Rome: Years o...
3
Neither did the suspicions against him remain passive; they became active.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates / Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning...
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Yet the people whose emotions are entrained do not remain passive.
Public Opinion
5
Let me go, my own dear mother, for I cannot remain passive here.
Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
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I can remain passive, and starve; or I can devour my ship, and drown.
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
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The subject should be warned not to try to help but to remain passive.
The Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses
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Nothing but submit and remain passive while it crushes me.
Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
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Children, even, do not remain passive in this fearful conflict.
Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
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You don't know what it cost me to remain passive.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
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I am defeated; I must remain passive; like a whipped child I am driven away.
The Puppet Crown
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I will remain passive now while you control it.
The Great Book of Amber
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But my nature would not permit me at such a crisis to remain passive long.
Strange Visitors / A series of original papers, embracing philos...
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Without proper conditioning, the driver could not be trusted to remain passive while I slept.
Carrion comfort
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Christian drew away from the hearth, unable to remain passive with that dread upon him.
The Were-Wolf
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It is better that you remain passive, Admiral Bluewater.
The Two Admirals
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