(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.
Superintendence
Definition:
(n.) The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ripa can be used with approval from an officer of superintendant level or above, and does not require the police to disclose their intentions to snoop on journalists.
(2) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
(3) However, Superintendent Garry McCarthy told the Chicago SunTimes that the tit-for-tat insult trading on social media was ill-advised .
(5) In fact it was led by Detective Superintendent Richard Chitty (who died in 1983).
(6) The first Berlin specialist was a Dr. Jüngling, a pupil of Mayrhofer, at the "Friedrichshain Hospital", the first medical superintendents were appointed in 1956.
(7) The results of the study provide practical information, ideas and considerations for administrators, curriculum coordinators, superintendents and other responsible for residential staff development.
(8) It provides a measure of relief and reassurance.” Five of the students who had been under quarantine or monitoring returned to school on Monday, and the remaining students will be back in school by Tuesday, Dallas Independent School District superintendent Mike Miles said Monday.
(9) Kavanagh defended Chief Superintendent Sandra Looby, the Tottenham police chief who has been criticised in the media for reportedly flying to Florida on Saturday, just before the rioting broke out.
(10) Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York's department of financial services, said last month that he intends to introduce regulation for bitcoins later this year, making New York the first state to do so.
(11) Despite having sacked the police superintendent , Garry McCarthy, on Monday and ordered the formation of a taskforce into police accountability, questions continue to swirl about what Emanuel knew, and when he knew it – questions that at best raise doubts about his grip over his own city and at worst threaten to impugn his integrity.
(12) He said doctors should be allowed to prescribe nevirapine in consultation with hospital superintendents.
(13) Savile had keys to the high-security hospital, accommodation and unrestricted access due to his relationship with the medical superintendent who hoped his fame would improve public perception of the hospital.
(14) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
(15) She is shellshocked, wearing a neck-brace while facing our old friends DS Arnott (played by Martin Compston) and superintendent Hastings (Adrian Dunbar).
(16) Dr Sudha Dev Kota, the medical superintendent at the hospital, said the seven doctors at the small facility housed in bare brick buildings had treated more than 200 people since Saturday.
(17) Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the gunmen opened fire on the group in retaliation for an earlier shooting in which one of them was slightly wounded.
(18) At the end of the aborted trial, the Met's Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell expressed his regrets: "This current investigation has identified, ever more clearly, how the initial inquiry failed the family and wider public.
(19) The constitutional role of the law officers is to superintend the CPS.
(20) Chief Superintendent Alan McCrum said: "Last night we saw a number of people on the streets who were intent on engaging in violence.