bystanding

Example Sentences

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June 5 - Minneapolis bans chokeholds by police and requires bystanding officers to stop them.

From Washington Times • Mar. 6, 2021

June 5 — Minneapolis bans chokeholds by police and requires bystanding officers to stop them.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2021

So the three bystanders stopped bystanding and started chasing.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2017

"Women make up half the population and people of colour make up 40%,'' she said. "There is no such thing as innocent bystanding any more.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2016

And while I was meeting with these misfortunes, the bystanding yokels, whose sympathies were all on one side and that not mine, as you may suppose, were dancing with delight, and shrieking their hoarse encouragement.

From The Wayfarers by Snaith, J. C.