After this battle, the Persians took an essentially passive role in the conflict, anxious not to risk battle if possible.

This plot has problems: its leading characters are essentially passive.

The student in this situation is essentially passive, not in control of his or her own education.

These essentially passive movements occurs during defecation and labour.

But we must assign them special categories as essentially passive combatants.

Popular culture instead reproduced essentially passive individuals as labour power for monopoly capitalism.

The latter are essentially passive and do not suffer before they are consumed.

But the essentially passive nature of watching television is turned topsy-turvy on the Internet.

The focuser is almost always the one at greatest risk in such a situation because his role is essentially passive.

The people are essentially passive, reliant on Oa, the principle of fecundity.