(1) Scotland welcomes 1,000th Syrian refugee Read more Scotland, and Glasgow in particular, has a long recent history of resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers, although among the many success stories there have been some notable missteps.
(2) It’s a sweet, tender, funny reintroduction to a classic character, and after a few recent PR missteps by Archie Comics – which cranked up Kickstarter campaigns to quickly relaunch other modernised versions of some of its classic titles, before abandoning the idea after complaints from fans and industry professionals – looks like a solid launchpad for its 75th-anniversary celebrations.
(3) The perceived missteps by the authorities have stoked concerns Beijing might lose its grip on economic policy, too, even as China looks set to post its slowest growth in 25 years.
(4) Also, the Kings were able to force key turnovers, none more important than Girardi's misstep that led to the winning goal from Justin Williams - the Rangers simply must be more careful with the puck to win.
(5) Still, Ali Rezaian said his sister-in-law, who is also a journalist, “lives in constant fear of punishment for any misstep in her daily life”.
(6) There is no doubt there have been missteps along the way.
(7) One week later, assistant director Ed Lowery suggested leaking embarrassing information about Chaffetz in retaliation for aggressive investigations by the House oversight and government reform committee into a series of agency missteps and scandals, the report said.
(8) That is the lesson of Hong Kong, where both the local authorities and Beijing have made misstep after misstep.
(9) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian If US tobacco sales really are set to fall off a cliff, that would be a monumental strategic misstep.
(10) Tory missteps and gaffes go ignored and unpunished, where, in the Alastair Campbell era of rapid rebuttal, they would have been seized on ruthlessly.
(11) That ill-fated effort was bedeviled with missteps, including a question about climate change clumsily planted with an Iowan college student .
(12) But, inevitably, there were missteps – the biggest of which often cited as the show’s lack of diversity.
(13) "If I can take what I've learned in this life and make one treacherous relationship or degrading job easier for you, perhaps even prevent you from becoming temporarily vegan, then every misstep of mine will have been worthwhile," Dunham writes on her website about the book .
(14) The politics are very different between these two events but the parallels with this latest Romney misstep are eerie.
(15) This analysis is an attempt to retrace the missteps made since 9 August by five key players in the Ferguson crisis: St Louis County prosecuting attorney Bob McCulloch; Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri; Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson; Ferguson mayor James Knowles and St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar.
(16) Music ‘Bowed down by the weight of responsibility’: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris as Nelson and Winnie Mandela Overall, this film does an eminently credible job until, in a disastrous misstep, it rolls the credits – and ends with a naff new song by U2.
(17) Having done a spot of Googling, I learn that it was also the year that Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls, arguably a misstep in her career which she may now be considering applying to have concealed.
(18) Moore and Alexander cautioned strongly against any plan for a Westminster-controlled referendum run by an English Tory government – that would be political poison in Scotland, a misstep capable of transforming minority support for independence into victory for the SNP.
(19) Presumably at such a moment it's better to look on the bright side rather than interrogate your own strategic missteps.
(20) The campaign will use its "Romney Response" Twitter and Tumblr accounts, and a new web site, Debates.MittRomney.com , to highlight any missteps the president might make and defend against any perceived gaffes on the part of the governor.
Oversight
Definition:
(n.) Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
(n.) An overlooking; an omission; an error.
(n.) Escape from an overlooked peril.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 3.42pm GMT 3.12pm GMT Key issue: Local authorities may lack expertise to implement BO The EAC raised concerns about the management and oversight of biodiversity offsetting.
(2) With the City's regulatory framework being tightened by the coalition government, which is disbanding the FSA and handing control of bank oversight to the Bank of England , there is concern in London that the US politicians are being opportunistic.
(3) The FSA, which was going to be given oversight of hedge funds, will instead be able to demand cooperation from them and from other financial firms it does not regulation during investigations into wrongdoing.
(4) The critical question is, do we want public policies regulating intelligence agencies, or do we want intelligence agencies that determine their own policies, that determine their own regulations, that we have no control or oversight over?
(5) If we’re going to give the AFP additional powers then that should be matched by [fixing] an anomaly that should have been fixed some time ago, which is the committee to have the capacity to oversight the AFP and its counter-terrorism operations,” Byrne told Sky News.
(6) First, when the military, the biggest land owner and free from civilian oversight, makes a direct deal with a developer to build an exclusive and gated community in the heart of the capital, this is not a free market.
(7) And this growth has not been matched by any corresponding reform of the legal framework or political oversight.
(8) It’s also a legal authority that is exempt from oversight by Congress or the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, meaning we know even less about it than the other NSA powers that have been dripping out over the last year and a half.
(9) The quote was spoken by House oversight committee chairman Jason Chaffetz.
(10) We should also create a new, beefed-up body including more independent people to scrutinise what is happening, based on Obama's privacy and civil liberties oversight board .
(11) One of the biggest barriers to transgender children accessing hormones – the requirement that such treatment be approved by the courts – may soon be cleared, as the Coalition and Labor signal that they will consider removing judicial oversight provisions.
(12) This will include extending the use of police-led prosecutions to cut the time the police spend waiting for the Crown Prosecution Service, overhauling the police complaints and disciplinary systems and making changes to the oversight of pre-charge bail.
(13) The other two were ACE chair Liz Forgan (who also chairs the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian) and Sir David Durie, a former governor of Gibraltar, who provided independent oversight.
(14) What have they cut in children’s education to do this?” Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, called for greater oversight of academies.
(15) However, it is also manifestly obvious that the operation of the web as an open and "generative" system, to quote Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain, needs oversight which prioritises citizens over consumers.
(16) The oversight was uncovered by the new state-owned body, UK Asset Resolution (UKAR), which now owns NRAM and the nationalised mortgages of Bradford & Bingley.
(17) Referring to the retention of three elected members on the board, the IoD's corporate governance adviser, Oliver Parry, said: "Without an entirely independently appointed board, there remain concerns about how much independent oversight the board will be able to exercise."
(18) Director of national intelligence James Clapper said the Guardian and Washington Post had failed to adequately convey how much constitutional oversight the programme received.
(19) But DfID went a step further than other donors in suspending sector budget support, which involves money going to a sector-specific government bank account, for example, health or education, but with oversight from donors.
(20) A ny attempt to rein in the vast US surveillance apparatus exposed by Edward Snowden's whistleblowing will be for naught unless government and corporations alike are subject to greater oversight.