(n.) One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
(2) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
(3) Preliminary murder charges have been lodged against two men – both students at Islamic religious schools, who were arrested at the scene after being overpowered by bystanders – and against a third assailant who fled and has yet to be found, an officer said.
(4) The UK is far from a neutral bystander in this conflict.
(5) The semi-allogeneic human conceptus therefore appears to be effectively protected from maternal complement-mediated damage arising either from alternative or classical pathway activation or in a bystander fashion following a response to microbial infection in the mother.
(6) The action starts in traditional Law & Order fashion, with an innocent bystander discovering a bloody body while he’s out walking his dog.
(7) Survival was significantly better (P less than 0.05) in the bystander-CPR group (32%) than in the delayed-CPR group (22%).
(8) Furthermore, this type of bystander killing of target cells could also be induced by the Ca2+ ionophore A23187.
(9) Joe Hart 6 A bystander throughout but that will not trouble the Manchester City man.
(10) Patient characteristics (sex and age), circumstances of arrest (place, whether arrest was witnessed and cardiac rhythm), citizen response (whether cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] was started by a bystander, time to access to emergency medical services and time to initiation of CPR), emergency medical services response (ambulance response time, time to initiation of CPR and time to rhythm analysis with defibrillator) and survival rates.
(11) Bystanders and people on buses liked us; we didn't look threatening and they recognised some film and TV stars among us.
(12) Thus, as demonstrated for older patients, coronary artery disease is an important cause of sudden death in this age group, and bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and early defibrillation are important for survival.
(13) Canine distemper virus-immune complex-induced oligodendroglial pathology is thought to be mediated by toxic factors released from stimulated macrophages, this bystander effect demonstrated here in vitro may be relevant to the mechanisms of demyelination in vivo, in which virus persistence plays an important role.
(14) The thyroid appears to be an "innocent bystander" in an immune mediated antiviral attack.
(15) Once microbial colonisation is established, the host responds exuberantly with non-specific and immune inflammatory responses which fail to clear the microbial flora but damage the 'innocent bystander' lung.
(16) It is proposed that the ability of the eye to make a compromise with the immune system and thereby arrange for the selective suppression of delayed hypersensitivity results from the need to avoid intraocular inflammatory reactions that are intense and productive of nonspecific "innocent bystander" injury.
(17) "What hurts the most is that Europe is a bystander."
(18) Finally I'd always recommend bystander action - it's difficult to know how you might react as a victim, but we can all keep our eyes open and calmly step in when we see somebody else being harassed - and this kind of collective action is likely to be safer and have a big impact on changing the cultural normalisation that lets harassers think they will get away with it in the future For those who are interested, Laura has previously written a great piece for us on street harassment, which can be found here.
(19) The protein antigen that was taken up into the circulation appeared to be intact and thus may have an influence on the development of the immune response, or lack thereof, to this bystander antigen.
(20) One officer approached the bystander who had been recording and, after confirming he had captured the entire thing, told him: “I’m going to take your phone.” The footage was later obtained by a local TV news station.
Spectator
Definition:
(n.) One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(2) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(3) In addition he should inform the teams and spectators about the medical coverage.
(4) Ryan said in an article for the China Spectator site, for which he reports from China, that he too had posted pieces about Guo.
(5) Officials had predicted that the 95,000-seat FNB Stadium would be filled and some spectators turned away but, in the end, it only reached about two-thirds capacity.
(6) Clegg was sent a complaint in March 2011 but there was no reply or investigation, it is alleged in this week's Spectator.
(7) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.
(8) The Week rose 6.4% year on year to 154,512; and the Spectator hit a record circulation of 77,146, up 2% on the year.
(9) The commentator and Spectator contributing editor Peter Oborne, who will speak at Wednesday’s protest, said: “This is not a matter of right or left.
(10) Under Russian law, gay people attending the games as athletes or spectators will not be allowed to "spread propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to anyone under 18.
(11) It only looks like a $100m movie.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I think Britons of Poulter’s generation – now in their late teens and early 20s, spectators while the economic fiascos of recent years shredded their odds of financial stability in the future – are more inclined to be aware of money, and more inclined to be aware of its reckless use.
(12) So said the Dispatches programme’s author and presenter, Fraser Nelson , who also happens to be editor of the Spectator during what is turning out to be one of its more ideological phases – as distinct from the High Tory scepticism of many decades.
(13) In later life the star had to give up drinking due to ill health but the greatest acting triumph of his later years was playing another notorious drunk, and O'Toole drinking buddy, Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
(14) West Ham United have increased the matchday capacity at the former Olympic Stadium to 60,000 in response to spectator demand.
(15) Spectators were so closely packed that emergency services had to gather up a macabre jumble of body parts, and the final toll was never confirmed.
(16) Nelson said: "Against the cacophony of the 24-hour news era, there has never been a greater need for what the Spectator offers: wit, style, mischief, elegance of thought and independence of opinion.
(17) I don’t want to talk about the referee because I don’t want to be punished again [following his two-game touchline ban last season].” City have made an official complaint to Uefa regarding the presence of spectators at the match and an official from the European game’s governing body was also monitoring the contingent during the game.
(18) i lent brett ratner my 2nd (of 2) parms dorz cos he wantd 2 impress women and I was worrid he mite get bbq sauce on it agen lol You've said your films are intended as "polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator."
(19) There was a smaller group of black spectators from a nearby township, determined to show they could now stand where they pleased.
(20) Johnson's schoolfriend and Bullingdon mucker, Darius Guppy, leapt to Johnson's defence in the Spectator correct , though I use the word "defence" loosely.