(v. t.) To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.
(v. t.) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
(n.) Supervision; inspection.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(2) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
(3) It added that the crisis had highlighted significant weaknesses in financial regulation, with further measures needed to strengthen supervision.
(4) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(5) At discharge, 58% were living with their families, 23% were living in group homes, 12% were in supervised apartments and 5% were in an alternative rehabilitation centre.
(6) It was designed to ensure that the institute remained the leading international centre in its field, officials said, and would not affect the provision of core services or student supervision.
(7) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(8) The aim in postoperative pain therapy is a time-contingent dosing after careful intravenous titration of the compound in the lower dose range during continuous supervision.
(9) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(10) These errors involved supervision, limited experience, and errors in judgment.
(11) It is also believed that senior Taliban inmates in Pakistan have been placed under a more liberal regime, such as being allowed to make telephone calls under supervision.
(12) 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.
(13) The pathologist should be aware that he is still liable for errors induced by the technician, even without having the possibility of responsibility or any supervision.
(14) Supervision in one form or another was possible in all of the departments participating, as a rule because an experienced colleague was present in the outpatient department.
(15) The availability of high-dose phenylpropanolamine-containing preparations without medical supervision is potentially dangerous, and certain restrictions should be imposed on such preparations.
(16) Also, programmes for proper administration, organization and supervision of the PHCUs and programmes.
(17) The results suggest that compliance in using the initial prescription for sublingual nitroglycerin can be improved when the physician supervises the first dose.
(18) He also said special advisers needed better training and management and that something had gone wrong in the supervision of Hunt's special adviser Adam Smith.
(19) However, the governor of the Bank, Mervyn King , will chair both the committee and the prudential authority, and is expected to exercise ultimate control over all areas of supervision.
(20) It is further necessary to lay down relevant executive orders for the hygienic control of the fertilizers and the supervision of the production plants.
Taskmaster
Definition:
(n.) One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite his gentle demeanour, the 52-year-old director can be a taskmaster on set, according to colleagues.
(2) Dimon, the charismatic leader of the bank, had enjoyed a reputation as a tough, strict taskmaster, the kind of CEO every bank should have.
(3) When asked if she drives the culture of the warehouse, Byers says: “I don’t run the warehouse, I run the retail.” She rejects suggestions that she is a hard taskmaster.
(4) Four months and two weeks had elapsed since the German chancellor Angela Merkel , ignoring the din of demonstrators and helicopters roaring overhead, had sought to convey, her eyes flashing this way and that, an essential fact: that she had come to Greece "not as a taskmaster but as a friend to listen and be informed".
(5) You can imagine Anderson as something of a taskmaster.
(6) Michael is a pretty hard taskmaster - they wouldn't survive if they weren't any good."
(7) For Felix Magath, that notoriously tough taskmaster, to grant his players two days off is a measure of the significance of this victory after Fulham pulled to within five points of Norwich City, whom they host next week, following Hugo Rodallega's winner four minutes from time.
(8) Felix Magath, the alleged hard taskmaster, failed to get his team playing anywhere near his demands.
(9) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.
(10) Medicine is a hard taskmaster but made worse by those around you who see you as a threat that rocks the hierarchy where everyone should know their place,” an anonymous hospital consultant says in response to the results of the Guardian survey.
(11) Having been handed power unexpectedly early, Kim may have felt conflicting emotions: one, the urge to be as good or better than his unyielding taskmaster dad; the other, a crippling fear of failure, of being inadequate to the task.
(12) The agency, as she describes it, is a hard taskmaster.
(13) But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR … our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.” It has been known for some time that Amazon is often a tough taskmaster.
(14) TMZ on Christian Bale's expletive-laden rant According to Citron, Levin was a hard taskmaster who would work all hours.
(15) That need for control made him a demanding taskmaster.
(16) Rushdie himself briefly resembled the Soviet taskmaster when he suggested that John Updike should "stay in his parochial neighbourhood and write about wife-swapping, because it's what he can do".
(17) Even though Hanks achieved his greatest career success appearing in dramas in the 90s, such as Apollo 13 and winning his Oscars for (in typical Oscars style) his two worst films, Philadelphia and Forrest Gump , as well as appearing in romcoms ( Sleepless in Seattle , You've Got Mail ) written and directed by Nora Ephron ("She was a taskmaster, but gentle – I wish I was making a movie with Nora tomorrow"), I personally will always have a soft spot for his 80s comedic performances.
(18) And whatever the supposed egalitarianism of the recording process, you feel that White must have been a hard taskmaster to the other three members of the Dead Weather, demanding they come up with ideas and push songs into new directions in the same way he demands of himself.
(19) This is the German’s default mode during games: a waving, berating, demanding taskmaster.
(20) She’s not a hard taskmaster and I think he seems to like that.” Mauresmo has worked hard on Murray’s self-belief, and was instrumental in his decision to play a punishing schedule of tournaments during the autumn to haul his world ranking, which had sunk following back surgery a little over a year ago, back into the top 10 (“I wanted him to feel what it was like to win tournaments again,” she said).