reactive

Examples of proactive

proactive
Making the decision : instances of a relatively proactive and planned approach to deciding that placement was needed.
Their preventive, proactive potential is perhaps the most important advantage of both unit- and team-based ethics.
That is, the role of constructive, proactive parenting in decreasing children's disruptive antisocial behavior patterns was strongest for children who initially had many problems.
In the latter study, maternal proactive parenting practices with aggressive, disruptive 2-year-olds predicted fewer problems by kindergarten.
However, they can only serve as metaphors for interaction that are complicated by a proactive artificial improviser.
Because many are serving long sentences, and many younger inmates will grow old behind bars, proactive measures need to be developed today.
High objective and subjective efficacy contributes partly to a lower level of depressive symptomatology via the promotion of a proactive style of behaviour.
Other efforts towards ethnic language preservation include proactive research by a wide variety of authors.
What they denote is not a change of possession but a proactive commitment of some sort guaranteeing the change of possession.
I recorded no instances of interactions in which the prospects are simply recipients of exploitation; they all take a proactive stance.
At the other end of the spectrum is the institution that takes a more proactive approach to the ownership and exploitation of research.
A proactive response to discouragement by others in technical areas is indicative of another common theme among the composers studied.
It is harder to ascertain to what extent the ombudsman's proactive work has had a real impact on the public authorities.
Agents are seen as extension of active objects, exhibiting dynamic autonomy (proactive action capability) and deterministic autonomy (the autonomy to refuse an external request).
Having a reactive presidency establishes a more complex policy-bargaining process, but one in which - unlike in the proactive cases - legislators remain in the driver's seat.
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