Sentences with phrase «only as observers»

During the whole process, representatives from the federal government or from local governments participate only as observers.

It doesn't even involve people — or rather, it involves them only as observers.

Not exact matches

Described by observers as the most powerful Chinese official in decades, Xi last year was recognized as only the fourth person to earn the designation of «core» leader.

While some observers have erroneously remarked that the law limits foreign companies to only 10 % of the market, the reality is that the sky's the limit for Verizon as long as it grows organically and not through acquisition.

I read an interesting article today written by a quantum mechanic claiming that the new direction in such scientific studies is that we can't be sure there is an objective reality but can only hope so, because what we perceive as reality is shaped by the observer.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

UN observer Lorne Gunter comments: «Rather than the People's Assembly being comprised of members or deputies from around the world, elected by and accountable to the people they represent [as is at least theoretically the case with the General Assembly], it would likely be made up of the heads of civil society NGOs, and, under most scenarios, only those NGOs accredited by the UN.

Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not as a scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.

It is interesting to note, in passing, that Santayana described in 1920 as a permanent feature of the American character what some observers today mistakenly believe is only characteristic of the current younger generation.

Jesus was not only (as we have seen) an observer of the workaday scene; he had been busy in it himself.

Indeed, only the most superficial observer would attempt to describe him without reference to an indeterminate group of persons quite other than him, most of them past, as to Thomas Jenson, buried at Clifton, Texas, or to Lena Nerhaugen, buried in Mt. Olive Cemetery in Chicago.

Some observers have even reinterpreted social issue and foreign policy controversies as expressions of economic distress, arguing, in effect, that the only real values in politics are material ones.

Although many observers see this growth only as evidence of the increasing irrelevance of religion, the nonreligious represent an important cultural group, as liberal on social issues as the most committed religious people are conservative.

But since instantaneous spaces are determinable only by what appears to actual observers (albeit perhaps in different families of durations — CN 177), these spaces taken together constitute all nature as it may be divided into alternate classes of durational experiences.

The Pleiades is a cluster of stars; Orion on the other hand, is a constellation — not a cluster — of stars, and as such only appear to be in relation with each other, from the point of view of earthbound observers.

As early as 1911, Paul Langevin pointed out that only the succession of causally unrelated events can be changed into a simultaneity or even be reversed by an appropriate change of the frame of reference; the succession of causally related events remains qualitatively (though not metrically) invariant for any conceivable observeAs early as 1911, Paul Langevin pointed out that only the succession of causally unrelated events can be changed into a simultaneity or even be reversed by an appropriate change of the frame of reference; the succession of causally related events remains qualitatively (though not metrically) invariant for any conceivable observeas 1911, Paul Langevin pointed out that only the succession of causally unrelated events can be changed into a simultaneity or even be reversed by an appropriate change of the frame of reference; the succession of causally related events remains qualitatively (though not metrically) invariant for any conceivable observer.

The unity of an aggregate is not ascribable to the aggregate as a feature of the aggregate per se — for an aggregate is by definition not a «one» but a plurality — so there can be a unity only with reference to some or other «observer»; that is, the «unity» of an aggregate is grounded in some substance as an ens rationis.

But many close observers of the Communist movement, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, have concluded that it can be understood only as a faith that demands the total allegiance of its adherents.

Moreover, an attentive inspection of Minkowski's space - time diagram discloses that while there is no «world - wide Now - instant,» there is such a thing as «absolute future» — not only for my own Here - Now, but for every other conceivable observer, i.e., for all observers located anywhere in the Elsewhere region.

It's easy to get caught up in our little bubble as hardcore MMA fans and think that Rory / Lima are prestigious talents because they're currently at the top of the game, but to the casual observer there's only the few guys they've heard of and then a bunch of nobodies.

GIE, that comment was not directed at you, I for one regard you as an excellent observer of players at the club.Benyahoun only joined us with minutes left in the transfer window as Liverpool got Bellamy which was IMO a better loan deal for Liverpool than us.

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

He said: «The government simply can't afford to be the passive observers of unhealthy lifestyles, only intervening when chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease or lung cancer are already well established.»

The notion that in this climate the state Legislature would be willing to roll back more than 20 years of precedent strikes some observers as not only absurd, but nakedly naive.

As one Republican strategist admitted to me recently, if his party fails to take back the Senate next month it will only lead observers to conclude Democratic campaign operatives are far superior to the GOP's, and Republicans don't have a chance of winning the White House in 2016.

As for observer status, the only precedent for this is for accession countries.

But as the battle for control of the House has tightened, opposition against him among his fellow Democrats has cooled somewhat, with a number of observers predicting he'll only benefit from the GOP's intra-party fight.

As far as I can tell, only one observer from that era argues that the negotiations brought about substantial change to the UK's membershiAs far as I can tell, only one observer from that era argues that the negotiations brought about substantial change to the UK's membershias I can tell, only one observer from that era argues that the negotiations brought about substantial change to the UK's membership.

Observers said that it's only natural for Stringer to be working to build a base of support beyond his loyal West Side as he prepares a run for higher office.

One potential of the new arrangement, as some informed observers suggest, is that only one?not all — of the PIs on a project will need the expensive resources and long - term stability that universities have traditionally provided to faculty members competing for grants.

Schrödinger proposed his «cat» after debates with Albert Einstein over the Copenhagen interpretation, which Schrödinger defended, stating in essence that if a scenario existed where a cat could be so isolated from external interference (decoherence), the state of the cat can only be known as a superposition (combination) of possible rest states (eigenstates), because finding out (measuring the state) can not be done without the observer interfering with the experiment — the measurement system (the observer) is entangled with the experiment.

A second reason was his concern with incorporating gravity, making use of what he called the equivalence principle, which postulates that observers can never distinguish the effects of gravity from those of acceleration as long as they observe phenomena only in their neighborhood.

The likely rate of novae in the Milky Way is about 40 per year, [1] but of these only about 10 per year are discovered by observers as of the 2000s (decade).

The photons, having optical wavelengths, are degraded into longer wavelengths by dust absorption and reemission, so that the protostar is apparent to a distant observer only as an infrared object.

Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, «The Awful Truth» is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.

So casual observers may be surprised to find that the movie, which recreates and riffs off of real interviews with its «characters,» portrays Harding as only vaguely aware of the plot instigated by her on - and - off lover / abuser Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), and even portrays Gillooly himself as not entirely aware of the measures that his delusional right - hand man Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser) is willing to take.

Reminders of this relationship between observer and observed are sprinkled liberally: It is doubtless no coincidence that a peripheral character is named «Truman,» nor that the ultimate arbiter of the gory goings - on is someone known only as «the Director.»

We used to think that a beam of light existed only as a wave until physicists discovered that light can be either a wave or a particle, depending on the viewpoint of the observer.

A 2015 report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that students enrolled in online charter schools aren't performing as well as their peers, and many observers have argued that online - only charters should be put out of business.

As states develop their initial ESSA plans, most informed observers agree that only a handful will do much more than check the box on federal requirements (e.g., state's duty to act when localities consistently ignore failing schools or groups of children who have no good options).

[13] In other words, value - added, along with other measures, [14] can help screen the performance of not only teachers, but observers as well.

June 27 — June 28, 2018, in Staples, MN (Days 2 and 3 only) As more districts adopt the Marzano evaluation models, now is a great time to hone your skills as an administrator observer and attend Training for Observers for the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation ModeAs more districts adopt the Marzano evaluation models, now is a great time to hone your skills as an administrator observer and attend Training for Observers for the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Modeas an administrator observer and attend Training for Observers for the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model.

With only top trims to sample, all had a touchscreen top - center, with simple climate controls below; some switches lower left of the wheel aren't as easy to see, and at least one of them is a press - and - hold for a second or so, which made observers wonder if I was tying my left shoelaces.

Many observers felt the ban on driver aids was in name only as they «proved difficult to police effectively».

I was playing the part of an observer of Quill's journey, which shows my reflection as a spirit of sorts, only helping in puzzle sections to move objects and structures around for Quill to navigate.

In its day, 420 West Broadway, the building where Castelli had a floor and his ex-wife's Sonnabend Gallery had another floor, exuded as much raw power as any Chelsea picture palace does today, and I suspect it is only tricks of memory that have convinced some observers that the SoHo of the 1980s was a kinder, gentler time.

Found between the marks of the entrance and exit are a series of drawers - mounted respecting the Modulor's measurements - that appear to be flat - surfaces, and can only be perceived as 3 - dimensional objects upon active participation of the observer.

While I won't be president at the time of your meeting and while the United States has only one president at a time, I've asked members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there.

As an outside observer, it seems that climate science is marked by scientists not only debating data, but credentials: who is a real climatologist and who is not.