As a regional organisation, it only holds observer status, relegating it to the end of the speakers' list and denying it a seat.

Several other entities have been granted observer status.

Observer status may be granted to qualified non-governmental organizations.

When accepted as a non-voting member, they receive observer status for two years until their representative status has been conclusively confirmed.

Whilst he was most certainly a second order cybernetician this he achieved simply by placing co-ordinates on a participant rather than claiming non-participant observer status.

His conducting technique, full of dapper flicks, certainly seems precise to an outside observer.

And that, in turn, has sharpened his perspective as a historian, while enhancing his status as an impartial, outside observer.

To any outside observer, that might look like the kind of return on an investment of 268,000 that would make any property speculator weep with envy.

But you will have spent less time in travelling than the outside observer has in standing still.

The gain may not be particularly evident to an outside observer.

They are a reminder of how your own romantic life has hit the skids, and now you're trapped in the security queue, a passive observer of true love.

Throughout the 1990s, the concept of a passive observer/researcher was rejected, and qualitative research became more participatory and activist-oriented.

They have has none of the smoke, ash or stale smell that makes smoking unpleasant, not to say dangerous, for passive observers.

They demonstrated they were not just passive observers of the democratic process but participants.

He achieved fame by groundbreaking programs where he took himself and the microphone to participate in various extraordinary events, such as diving and parachuting, instead of remaining a passive observer.

Three top politicians and a leading political observer debating serious national issues.

No serious political observer could afford not to read it.

All this gives one political observer hope.

He emerged as a political observer and humorist with libertarian viewpoints.

Most political observers, including myself, were expecting far worse.

They should not have personal interests that would suggest to the reasonable observer that they cannot impartially consider the evidence.

To any reasonable observer this smacks less of enlightened governance, than of blackmail.

We hold that these memorials have the impermissible effect of conveying to the reasonable observer the message that the state prefers or otherwise endorses a certain religion.

Such a situation will strike reasonable observers as absurd.

If that wound was self-inflicted, what followed left even seasoned observers of football scratching their heads.

But for many seasoned observers the term carries additional connotations.

But seasoned observers fear divisions in the camp.

No wonder seasoned observers are suggesting that the county could be on the brink of 1960s-style dominance of the championship.

Seasoned observers will groan, but lots of people will remember only these slogans.

He was immensely careful and sympathetic observer of other people's lives.

Comprehensive account by a sympathetic observer.

More sympathetic observers note how swiftly things have changed.

A trained observer can make a visual assessment based on factors like muscle wasting.

A trained observer selects the smallest target resolvable at each contrast level.

The significant wave height was intended to mathematically express the height estimated by a trained observer.

A trained observer estimated winds of over 150 mph (240 km/h), and winds in the territory were unofficially estimated as strong as 200 mph (325 km/h).

For once, the excuses of the highly paid performers and trained observers were valid.

To the unbiased observer, the capybara appears to have taken the chequered flag in the great cycle of reincarnation.

Some unbiased observers, therefore, are needed to assess bonus schemes, so that shareholders will have some objective criterion on which to vote.

These studies also showed no improvement in measures of hyperactivity or inattention by unbiased observers.

These inquiries must be answered by independent and unbiased observers.