7 sentences with 'observing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word observing and other words derived from it.
• « - Does this happen very often? -asked one of the students who were observing the operation naively. »
• « Before the age of twenty, Halley had already focused his interest on observing the stars of the southern hemisphere, establishing the first astronomical observatory in that hemisphere on the island of St. Helena, Africa. This enabled him to publish a list of nearly 350 stars never before observed. »
• « There was a marked absence of empirical investigation: observing, from a neutral and objective point of view, natural phenomena and using these observations as the basis for informed experimentation into their causes and workings. »
• « He spent twenty years carefully observing the heavens from his castle on an island near Copenhagen. The greatest significance of Brahe's work for posterity was that it provided a wealth of data for later astronomers, although his central argument turned out to be inaccurate. »
• « After observing the behaviour of a population of wild olive baboons in Kenya's Masai Mara reserve for ten years, Sapolsky compared the results of his study with the findings of an American mental health researcher. »
• « Pandas are extremely elusive. Still, by trapping them for radio collars, and by observing others in captivity, researchers have been able to get a much more complete picture of their lifestyle. »
• « Discussions over border issues between neighbouring states, for example, are useful for observing this issue. In these cases, the states involved claim a portion of territory that each considers its own. In this way, each is exercising its sovereign power, the right to exercise its authority over a territory and the people who live there. »