Taking an activist approach to public investing may produce returns in excess of those likely to be achieved passively.

Pat Riley takes the activist approach to basketball salvation.

Mr. Cuomo suggests that all states should embrace such an activist approach to government out of self-interest, if not compassion.

A stockholder should take an activist approach, Ms. Minow said.

As a result, candidates did not hesitate to take activist approaches.

But there were two problems with the activist approach.

So, in contrast to the concept of judicial restraint to which conservative judges and politicians often pay respect, the Court has taken an activist approach.

Rather than being weakened by a wholesale barbarization, the church's message became even stronger, making an activist missionary approach all the more compelling.

However it supported an activist contracyclical approach that helped to establish Keynesianism as a bipartisan economic policy for the nation.

Mr. Gore's activist approach ignores the history of federal failures in setting education policies.