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Observation in sentence

464 examples of Observation in a sentence

Based on that one small but critical observation, the investigation shifted from accidental death to homicide.
Like Jorge Méndez Blake's sculpture of building a brick wall above Kafka's book "El Castillo" shows that more astute observation can be subtle and yet invaluable.
In 2013, on a field trip to detect schistosomiasis with Foldscopes, I made a minor observation.
He experienced it in a way that went beyond scientific observation and reason.
This observation is more powerful than it seems.
But Wigler, besides looking at cancer cells, looked at normal cells, and made a really sort of surprising observation.
No. You've made one observation.
And he makes this observation: that when you're a child, you see animals at twice the size as you do as an adult.
(Audience: Well, first an observation, which is that you look like a character.)
JH: The observation is, Philip has been accused of looking like a character, an avatar, in Second Life.
So the scientists watching the elephants kept close observation on Eleanor's body for seven days.
Now sometimes, scientists supplement observation with hormonal analysis.
Perhaps it's not a very insightful observation, but that really started me on a path to be able to do a kind of theme and variations based on a work by Piero, in this case that remarkable painting that's in the Uffizi, "The Duke of Montefeltro," who faces his consort, Battista.
In Adam Smith's earlier work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," which I think is just as important, he made the observation that the value of any government is judged in proportion to the extent that it makes its people happy.
And in 1960, Frank Drake conducted the first SETI observation looking at two stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, for about 150 hours.
They were consistently dug as limestone quarries and by the 18th century, the caving-in of some of these quarries posed safety threats, so the government ordered reinforcing of the existing quarries and dug new observation tunnels in order to monitor and map the whole place.
The real key observation he made is that a free-flying wing can sweep through more sky and generate more power in a unit of time than a fixed-wing turbine.
I personally believe that sustained observation of our oceans and our planet is the moral imperative for our generation of scientists.
(Speaks Spanish) Cartoons are drawn from observation and analysis.
And the Great Firewall of China is a set of observation points that assume that media is produced by professionals, it mostly comes in from the outside world, it comes in relatively sparse chunks, and it comes in relatively slowly.
So that's this kind of recursive observation system.
Whether she was exploring the craggy canyons of Texas, the quiet forests of South Carolina, or the sun-bleached desert of New Mexico, her creative process was based on ritual and close observation.
Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental; much of it is unpleasant.
It did help by promoting observation and experiment.
Like all knowledge, it's conjectural, guesswork, tested by observation, not derived from it.
What I'd like to start off with is an observation, which is that if I've learned anything over the last year, it's that the supreme irony of publishing a book about slowness is that you have to go around promoting it really fast.
I do lots and lots of flying, and if I was at the FAA, what would I be doing a lot of direct observation of?
What was, for me, a very naive observation, turned out to be a disaster.
So, mounted in front of the observation sphere, there's a a three-foot diameter hoop with a screen stretched across it.
Julian Sanchez: I'm going to make an observation about the way remix culture seems to be evolving ... Larry Lessig: So what he does is he begins to tell us about these three videos.
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