The Forum describes its two-year study into the performance of 112 economies as a bid to broaden that debate about inequality beyond merely observing symptoms to instead finding specific ways to change policies and institutions in order to improve living standards.
In "observational studies," subjects are merely observed, not assigned randomly to "treatment" and "control" groups as in a traditional experiment.
During the late afternoon, Linois's squadron fell in behind the slow line of merchant ships and Dance expected an immediate attack, but Linois was cautious and merely observed the convoy, preferring to wait until the following morning before engaging the enemy.
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Following the advice that Holmes often gave to Watson, Green practiced how to "see" what others merely "observed".
I'm not in the habit of bearing grudges against five-year-old boys I don't even know, especially when I haven't so much as spoken to them, but merely observed their behaviour from a distance of several metres.
That is, those who merely observed Superman and Voldemort were asked to put themselves "in the shoes" of the character, but they did not actually play the part.
Lockley did not claim to understand how the birds knew their position relative to their destination, but merely observed that they behaved as if they did know it.
It suggests that he may have been something other than an orthodox Muslim, and indeed John Freely, an authority on life at the palace, writes that "he seems to have been basically irreligious, and in his observance of Islam he merely observed the forms of the Muslim faith".
