By their nominalizations and passives , they signaled that they had moved actions and characters around in their sentences, eliminating characters altogether. The more interesting examples are more subtle, perhaps even unintended, and just because of that, even more insidious. Nevertheless, they have an ethical aspect that we ought to recognize. Shaping Stories Artful writers can shape their stories in ways that make it seem they had no choice but to focus on the agents they did. Your country expects the best of you.
History argues against the usefulness economic sanctions.
Your duty calls. Only humans can prove, expect, argue, or call. This passage you wrote is not clear. I do not clearly understand this passage you wrote. The right question is why the writer wants us to think that one character rather than another is the responsible agent .