Several speakers at the conference observed that Mr. Gorbachev -- who could have rolled back eastern Europe's anti-Communist revolutions by force as his predecessors did -- was on hand and had, in effect, made the border park possible.
Yet several scholars at the conference observed that life tenure, a very rare arrangement among the world's judicial systems, was itself a source of political vulnerability for judges who are easily portrayed as arrogant in their insularity and unaccountability.
The Conference observed one minute of silence in memory of those staff members who had died in the service of the Organization since the Conference had last met.
At the time of proposing a conference observing the 60th anniversary of UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education to the Carnegie Corporation in early 2017, the wave of nationalism in various parts of the globe was gaining momentum.
In a 2003 report titled Too Much Stuff?, the national museum directors' conference observed that: "Collections are held not for the benefit of individual institutions, but for the public as a whole".
The Nebraska doctor's report launched an extensive investigation by Iowa's Child Protective Services (CPS), including interviews of social workers and others who'd interacted with the twins and a Telemed closed-circuit TV conference observed by social-services and law-enforcement personnel in Iowa and Nebraska.
The agitation was marked by fasts, protest marches, processions, picketing of schools teaching Hindi and government offices, anti-Hindi conferences, observing an anti-Hindi day (1 July and 3 December 1938 ) and black flag demonstrations.
I attended trainings and conferences, observed other Fellows' classrooms, and had a program manager who observed mine.
"Although this isn't what we wanted, it isn't unwelcome," Matthew Cotter, a CUNY graduate student and one of the conference's organizers, observed dryly.
In the early stages of the conference, they were observed desperately shouting their native dialects at their black boxes, in the belief that the set was some new kind of telephone and that they could tune in on one another as they moved about the hall.
