Sentences with phrase «interested bystander»

As the task force observes, the articling contract is between a student and a principal; the law society is an interested bystander, but one without any power or standing to intervene.

Ray, I am only an interested bystander with very limited knowledge and I am surprised at your pausing to ask me such a question.

On this felicitous occasion I would like to express the wish that ARTnews, as a knowledgeable and interested bystander, take an occasional look at the architectural scene.

«NASA is kind of an interested bystander,» said Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California and a longtime commercial space and lunar development advocate.

Late in the game, Ellard, an interested bystander, came by to tell Anderson he was approaching the NFL record for yardage in a game, which happened to be held by Henry's best friend and Fresno neighbor, Stephone Paige of the Kansas City Chiefs.

He then wowed «em at a junior clinic and exhibition at Sage Valley Golf Club in South Carolina, where Golf Channel and other interested bystanders issued breathless dispatches about Tiger's prowess.

Not exact matches

While Carney's move to drastically cut interest rates in Canada at the beginning of the financial crisis was prophetic, Philip Aldrick of the Telegraph likens the situation to Canada being an innocent bystander to a horrendous car crash with the U.K. economy at the wheel: the enormity and complexity of the economic problems Carney will face are on a whole different level.

I think this Salon article makes an interesting point in exploring the efficacy of bystander education programs that target specific communities.

«Ours is the first study to define the dormant niche on a cellular and molecular basis, and it is interesting that the culprit is the tissue we so often assume is a passive bystander, the microvascular endothelium,» Ghajar says.

Nor does it go well for bystanders like Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman, never better), hounded for fifteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and more interested in atoning for his sins than mixing it up with the local dragoons.

I thought that was a really interesting thing to do, to be a bystander on somebody else's incredibly intense, emotional story, and trying, and to be helpless to serve it.

How interesting, for example, that the Robin Wright Penn character is not simply one more bystander wife in a thriller, but a real woman in a marriage that seems to have run out of love.

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These are causes of action that require there to be an existing relationship in which the bystander is obligated to consider, and in some cases protect, the interests of the victim.

The other interesting thing in all this is how Facebook seems to have positioned itself as a simple bystander.

How three kinds of families help create bullies, targets of bullies, and bystanders, or children who are responsible, resourceful, resilient, compassionate human beings, who can act in their own best interest, stand up for themselves, and exercise their own rights while respecting the rights and legitimate needs of others, stand against injustices, act with integrity, resist provocation, and resolve conflicts peacefully; 2.

The appeals court also noted that since the salesperson received a commission on the transaction, she wasn't an innocent bystander but had an interest in seeing the transaction go forward.