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The U.S. government tends toward "bystanding" while genocide takes place in countries like Rwanda, an approach particularly common to the executive branch, she added.

Jane Ciabattari: The New Yorker Festival: Samantha Power on Obama, Bush and What to Do in Darfur 2008

In light of this fence-sitting or forced 'bystanding', coupled with Russia's recent veto of a Western-led UN Security Council resolution seeking to impose economic sanctions against Syria and Europe, and America's own distinct resource, political, and financial limitations, the West will let the current mess that is Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia unfold 'organically'.

Daniel Wagner: Libya's Constitutional Moment Daniel Wagner 2011

The police were only bystanding or inside important buildings and had instructions only to take action if the demonstrators tried to enter the buildings and take them over, which didn't happen.

Global Voices in English » Georgia: Opposition ultimatum passes 2009

From my point of view the sound comes from the bystanding firetrucks.

KN | Kitsune Noir » ‘Je Me Figeais’ by Baptise Sola 2010

Anyone who wants to help another person....say in the case of a bystanding assisting someone in need without personal gain is purely evil.

Charlize Theron Could Topline Atlas Shrugged Mini-Series | /Film 2009

They have to imagine themselves actually present at one of the major events of Christ's life - either writing as one of the people mentioned in the Scriptures or inventing a bystanding character.

Archive 2009-07-01 Joanna Bogle 2009

They have to imagine themselves actually present at one of the major events of Christ's life - either writing as one of the people mentioned in the Scriptures or inventing a bystanding character.

An ecumenical... Joanna Bogle 2009

And it landed safely in the arms of a bystanding policeman.

CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2008 2008

Somehow, any innocent bystanding men managed to duck out of the way, or the bullets and bomb fragments (and I'm sure they were fragmentation bombs that were used, as well as a withering spray of machine-gun fire) that hit all those poor women and kids, just somehow (magically?) missed the men.

Something is Rotten in Iraq and the Pentagon 2007

The disconnecting cause (such as Pam's release of the catapult) and the effect are linked by probability, while the misconnecting non-cause (such as Tom's bystanding) and the effect are not.

The Metaphysics of Causation Schaffer, Jonathan 2007