(v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
(v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.
(v. i.) To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.
Example Sentences:
(1) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
(2) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(3) Then they become increasingly unable to afford the probation fees that are piled on by private companies paid to oversee them, including fees for everything from basic supervision to drug tests.
(4) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
(5) Based in London, Perrette oversees and sets the strategy for all of Discovery’s business outside the United States.
(6) May pointedly highlighted the latest reform effort, Vision 2030, promoted by the deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, the hawkish defence minister who oversees the Saudi campaign in Yemen.
(7) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
(8) February 2015: Vinci, the French company that oversees venues including the Stade de France, named as the stadium operator.
(9) One of the criticisms of Obama is that instead of asking vice-president Joe Biden to oversee a task force looking at proposals for reform in January and then leaving Congress to come up with a draft bill, he should have pushed his own set of proposals when emotions were still raw.
(10) It will also oversee an in-house review by the bank into the advice its financial planners gave to customers during that period.
(11) Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned today.
(12) In what was widely seen as a vote of low confidence in the Eulex inquiry, the EU’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, announced in Brussels this week that she would dispatch an independent legal expert to oversee its progress.
(13) The chancellor also said that the sometimes bewildering array of initiatives already in existence for small firms would be streamlined under the banner of UK Finance for Growth, which will oversee the existing £4bn of schemes.
(14) Hunt was given responsibility for overseeing the News Corp bid for Sky on 21 December 2010, after the business secretary, Vince Cable, told undercover reporters he was at war with Rupert Murdoch.
(15) Three US senators announced bills on Thursday that proposed the most sweeping structural changes to the secret court that oversees the legal basis for surveillance activities since it was set up 35 years ago.
(16) A tender process for a new body to oversee Libor starts on Friday.
(17) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(18) Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is overseeing a civil service overhaul, accepted Tsipras' motion, saying it would give the government an opportunity to prove that its parliamentary majority is strong.
(19) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
(20) Alan Pardew Crystal Palace manager One of the more experienced English managers currently working in the top flight, he was considered a realistic candidate after overseeing eye-catching progress at Selhurst Park in 2015.
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.