The lower classes sometimes suffer even more, but they tend to be politically passive.

The Parliament building remained occupied today by members of a nationwide student movement that galvanized this politically passive country of more than 200 million only two months after Mr. Suharto engineered his ritual re-election to a seventh five-year term.

For the next decade, until June 1967, the Palestinians watched with envy the triumphs of Arab nationalism under Nasser's leadership, but remained politically passive.

"Objective Media", which is politically passive and transports unclear party lines.

After his release he remained politically passive.

An axiom here holds that Russians are politically passive, but the protests unfolding in cities across 11 time zones is challenging that, while raising questions about public support for the country's course under President Vladimir V. Putin.

At this time, Zionists and Jewish socialists, who were still a small minority of Polish Jewry, had hoped that the Hasidic masses would continue to behave as in the past, to be politically passive and to play no role in public life.

Jews must remain politically passive.

According to William R. Polk, an American expert on the Middle East, Palestinian guerrillas struck into southern Israel from Egypt early in 1955, but the Palestinians remained politically passive until about 1962.

During the Finnish Civil War in 1918, Nurmi remained politically passive and concentrated on his work and his Olympic ambitions.