Sentence examples for a mere observers from inspiring English sources

During the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, President Bill Clinton and members of his administration pushed for the reduction of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda from over 2,500 troops to 270, with the remaining troops' mandate being reduced to a mere observers' role.

It's only necessary to defend someone against the charge of being a mere observer if you have a narrow conception of realism, and observation.

Do my sentences reveal once again the voice of the outsider, a mere observer?

By the time the first chorus arrived, the narrator was no longer a mere observer.

Katniss, at a decisive moment, is a mere observer, her skills held in abeyance in anticipation of later opportunity.

Mailer participated in the public world not innocently, as a mere observer, but greedily, eager for notice and power.

Only Jacques seems to stand on the periphery, unscathed, a mere observer and plot device, deprived of his own story.

Far from being a mere observer, Mr. McCullough is part of the proceedings, being pulled constantly in all directions.

The private detective is of course a peculiarly literary character, a finder-out of stories but a mere observer.

The UK sent a middle-ranking trade official as a mere observer to the signing of the Treaty of Rome that year.

That rock star was Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day's lead singer, who starts out as a mere observer, as the stage director Michael Mayer and his crew begin retooling "American Idiot" the album into "American Idiot" the show.