Government policy has failed to keep up with what some observers call the economic and social reality.
Rights groups say more must be freed, but other observers have called the move another positive sign.
Another factor is what some observers call "the Nevada card."
Legal observers have called the Wilentz court one of the best state high courts in the country.
It was what one observer has called "a kind of anarcho-Islam."
The utility put a brave face on what most outside observers called a major setback.
As on Hill 317, forward observers on high ground called in fire missions.
A more objective observer might call it something else.
She watched them with an intensity a casual observer might call psychotic.
Only that people are marching out of what one observer called a hole in the landscape.