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observer

An observer is somebody who watches something.

observer

(= perceiver) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses an expert who observes and comments on something

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Simple sentences

The fact is apparent to the most casual observer.
History is like Quantum Physics, the observer affects the event observed. Is the Kennedy assasination a particle or a wave?
They were admirable things for the observer - excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions.

Movie subtitles

Alfred Ney, a foreign political observer.
You have a reputation of being a true observer of life, Ashenden.
Dr. Lee will act as medical observer.
Probably got an observer up on one of those ridges.
But if you hop in the jeep with the colonel and go to the forward area as our observer I'm sure somebody will hand you a bayonet with a rifle attached to it.
Shall I take your observer along?
The weather observer has something.
As the foremost authority on the sea and its mysteries, you can be an excellent observer.
A trained observer has to go.
These observer fellows. I felt like a man being driven out for execution.
You're such a great observer.
Steer as near as you company the enemy, but keep our real are observer. - Yes, sir.
Frankly, I'm a neutral observer for the United Nations.
I'm merely what the United Nations would call an observer.
Suddenly suspiciously watching the windows, whose curtains hide the observer.
But your duties will be those of an official observer.
I came here as an objective observer.
As the foremost authority on the sea, you can be an excellent observer.
You're such a great observer. Did you see the principal?
Observer, prepare a view of the second quadrant, please.
Observer, a closer view.
We ask that Dr. Harcourt be allowed to sit at our table as an observer.
As an observer, do you remember this?
As an observer.
I will represent you as the only observer allowed here. Your participation is possible by watching these reports.
Courier. Dispatch. Observer.
I want to send a telegram To the Courier, Dispatch, Observer- all the New York newspapers.
Auto-observer on.
Don't worry, Captain. I'm merely what the United Nations would call an observer.
I was invited as an observer.
I did not know that not only are you efficient, and a good observer, you are a photo enthusiast.
I'm just an observer, captain, not an umpire.
Funny, your being his observer.
His observer will ring me as soon as he puts a bomb in your hospital.
I am his observer.

News and current affairs

This stance - suggested by America's opposition to granting Palestine observer-state status at the United Nations - would amount to an admission by the US that it has given up on the creation of two states in the Middle East.
So, by the summer of 2001, a pattern was set that would lead British observer Daniel Davies to ask if there was a Bush administration policy on anything of even moderate importance that had not been completely bollixed up.
At the moment, though, the casual observer is still rather clueless.
Nevertheless, an outside observer might have been struck by the weight given to the possibility that the decade-long boom might well suffer a real reversal, followed by serious declines.
These look like reasonable conditions to any outside observer.
Any observer who reads the world's great international newspapers will probably think that Venezuela is in deep crisis.
To the committed observer, it does not appear that democratic countries' electorates are so evenly divided along class or similar lines as to cause political stalemate.
But were it to resign itself to mere observer status in Lebanon, the UN and Europe would lose all credibility.
In short, the ECB bond-buying program has transformed the ECB from a passive observer of the euro crisis, paralyzed by the outdated legalistic constraints of the Maastricht Treaty, into a proper lender of last resort.
It is difficult for an outside observer not to draw a connection between the two decisions.
Alan Greenspan, the former US Federal Reserve chairman, was a master of manipulation with his Delphic utterances, but instead of acknowledging what he was doing, he pretended that he was merely a passive observer.
A cynical observer remarked at the preliminary hearing that by the looks of it the Russian authorities couldn't make up their mind: either the former Yukos bosses didn't pay taxes or they embezzled money.
Beyond that, however, the observer of contemporary politics will hardly recognize the picture drawn by America's great constitutional theorist.
But were the EU to resign itself to mere observer status in Lebanon, the UN and Europe would lose all credibility.
Rand, perhaps better than any economic observer, underscored the central role of incentives in driving entrepreneurial innovation and risk-taking.
It is extremely difficult for an honest observer to break through the closed doors that separate Chechnya from the rest of the world.
While the Arab League seemed to act decisively last November when it suspended Syria's membership, the military-observer mission that it sent to Syria was a farce.
Even if, as expected, the Security Council rejects the Palestinians' request for full UN membership and Palestine ends up with observer status in the General Assembly, Abbas can already claim victory.
Similarly, the US opposed the move by Palestine - a United Nations-recognized non-member observer state - to join the International Criminal Court (ICC).
But, if two-thirds of its members agree, the General Assembly can recognize Palestine as a state with observer status, similar to the Vatican.
Moreover, as a state (even with observer status), Palestine could seek legal relief from the International Court of Justice.
We have repeated the mantra dozens of times in various settings, as any fair observer would confirm.
The recent success of Abbas in the United Nations General Assembly - securing observer-state status for Palestine - will not alter the basic aspects of this trend.

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