Like the lightly-armed Dutch contingent of U.N. peacekeepers in Srebrenica, brushed aside by Bosnian Serb forces commanded by General Ratko Mladic, the 300 U.N. monitors in Syria have no power to influence events -- just to observe and report them.

CNN: Syria, Sarajevo and Srebrenica: When outrage isn't enough

High restrictive because it only gives us an ability to observe, verify and report, and like you rightly pointed out, that doesn't sound good enough or adequate.

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District Judge Ken Nixon released the pair on bail to appear again next week and ordered them to observe a curfew, report to police three times per week and to stay at least 500 metres away from any protest or demonstration.

BBC: Snowballs

Although the text of the report does go on to observe that "these benefits have not been universal, some may decline over time, and potential benefits and risks may become more numerous as the technology is applied to more crops, " some context for this sentiment and Pollack's coverage of it is essential.

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Quoting the FSA report, Mr Osborne said that in failing to observe "proper standards of market conduct", Barclays created the risk that "confidence in, or the stability of, the UK financial system would be threatened".

BBC: Osborne: Bank's misconduct risked UK's reputation