Voting rights groups are especially watchful this year because under a 2002 federal law, states are now coordinating lists to find felons and people who have died or moved, allowing easy — rights groups say too easy — purging of voters.
They didn't seem hostile, just watchful, but this time there was no one to guide us through except the second Libyan, who gave me a friendly slap on the back and said again with a huge chortle, "I will always celebrate my birthday on Sept. 11!" I imagined myself looking at the scene through the eyes of a recruiter.
(Elements of Style Reminder #8: Avoid the use of qualifiers. We should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then).
The second trial began under the watchful the eyes of a nation, this time with just one defendant.
The studios are also keeping a watchful eye on this development.
— one might cast about for an acronym to describe this watchful, hopeful, but wary emotional condition.
Under this watchful leadership, Vietnam today seems like a nation of bees buzzing inside a bottle, thrumming with repressed energy.
But according to several filmmakers and film scholars both here and abroad, the government recently appears to have adopted a somewhat hands-off, though highly watchful, posture toward this film vanguard, leaving it to operate in an undefined gray area.
This watchful, inner kind of creativity is not about making things but about experiencing life in a creative way; it's a way of asserting your own presence amidst the much larger world of nature, and of finding significance in that wider world.
So far, few researchers keep a watchful eye on this task which has been our focus in the above sections.
