Translation of "Passiveness" in German

I won't mention the police's passiveness.

His passiveness and constant self-pity soon start to get on your nerves.

This also means he also has two potential weaknesses: passiveness and fear.

His ministers, on the other hand, are unhappy with the king's passiveness.

In fact, there is nothing but passiveness or asceticism.

Passiveness, corruption and superficiality define Bosnian society now more than ever.

He was able to avoid a deportation but was condemned to passiveness.

The passiveness of governments means that increasing numbers of Christian families are deciding to emigrate.

It is an "active passiveness" to wait upon the Lord, and what He will do.

This indiscriminate violence caused deep psychological traumas for the victims, resulting in long-lasting fears, suppressed emotions, self-censorship and passiveness.

The Council's passiveness and lack of action in this matter are a scandalous reflection of the lack of a common foreign policy, as is the fact too that these two countries are neighbours, not only in terms of geography, but also in terms of ideology, history and, more recently, belligerence.

I believe that we cannot in future, or even at present, limit ourselves to offering fine words and even generous humanitarian aid. Instead, it is essential that from this experience - which, after all, is relatively small in the general scale of things - we understand the consequences which must lead us, Mr President, to put an end to our lack of action and our passiveness.

Certainly no one imagined when the Treaty was drawn up, when Articles 6 and 7 were being drafted, that we would find ourselves in a situation where we would not be discussing infringements of fundamental rights, or passiveness concerning the defence of fundamental rights by a government, but by a European institution: the Council as such remaining a passive accomplice, with the complicity of all Member States.

The Council's passiveness and lack of action in this mat ter are a scandalous reflection of the lack of a common foreign policy, as is the fact too that these two countries are neighbours, not only in terms of geography, but also in terms of ideology, history and, more recently, belligerence.

I believe that we cannot in future, or even at present, limit ourselves to offering fine words and even generous humanitarian aid. Instead, it is essential that from this experience - which, after all, is relatively small in the general scale of things - we understand the consequences which must lead us, Mr President, to put an end to our lack of ac tion and our passiveness.

The Prinzregentenzeit ("prince's regent's time"), as the regency of Luitpold is often called, was due to the political passiveness of Luitpold an era of the gradual transfer of Bavarian interests behind those of the German empire.

I want to see a very rapid end to this passiveness and action to tackle a problem which is not an Irish problem, which is not an agricultural problem, but an eminently European problem, and I say to the Commissioner in the Chamber that there is no justification for diffidence on the part of the Commission.

The Commission's relative passiveness in the face of a sustained recession is difficult to excuse even if account is taken of the Council's specific responsibility in this matter.

"Roman" almost came to be associated with passiveness and enslavement, and "Hellene" brought back the memory of ancient glories and the fight for freedom.

Annan maintained his extreme passiveness even after the airplane crash that killed Habyarimana, which signaled the genocide's start, helped by the indifference of the great powers (America not least).