To listeners, this spells convenience verging on luxury - and luxury encourages passivity.

All these forms of economic assistance encouraged passivity and unconsciously shifted people's priorities away from the quality of human resources to the quantity of financial ones.

Her worn-out aristocratic side seems to encourage lethargy and passivity.

Above all she recognizes that much in life is received rather than taken, and while she does not encourage passivity, she does encourage acceptance.

Relationships which impose such forms of help, it was felt, encourage apathy and passivity on the part of young disabled people.

This can, in turn, encourage continued passivity from the Federal Reserve.

But by focusing exclusively on the Israelis, the administration encourages passivity by everyone else, including the Palestinians, Egyptians and Europeans.

But she said there was a danger in relying solely on a medium that encourages "passivity or laziness."

The playing encouraged passivity in a listener because it made the music so hard to follow.

Younger doctors and nurses, on the other hand, tend to encourage dependent behaviour and passivity on the part of older patients.