Sentences with phrase «as a watchdog over»

Common Cause and a coalition of reform groups, including the League of Women Voters, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany recommend reinstating the state Comptroller's role as a watchdog over state contractors.

Since Feb. 28, Acting Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott has been running the office, which serves as a watchdog over state government and its employees.

And he made a point to separate himself from New York's culture of corruption, positioning himself as the watchdog over Albany while also chastising those in Albany who «saw something and said nothing.»

Ms. James, who is black, served as an assistant attorney general and public defender before being elected in 2014 to the public advocate position, where she acts as a watchdog over city agencies.

As Public Advocate — she serves as a direct link between New Yorkers and their government — acts as a watchdog over City agencies — and investigates complaints about City services.

The next day, common councilors questioned Miner's authority to fire Davis, who was hired by an independent board that is supposed to act as a watchdog over the mayor's police department.

The position will serve as a watchdog over the influential testing industry and monitor testing companies» impact on education legislation.

Not exact matches

Over the years, USCIRF has never missed a deadline, functioning as an independent watchdog and recommending lists of CPCs to the State Department.

Over the past five years Gluten Free Watchdog has tested 35 different oat products labeled gluten - free that list oats as the first or second ingredient.

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Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

As an NPT member, Iran has a good bilateral relationship with the IAEA, signing a safeguards agreement with it, and it was the IAEA that has acted as a reliable watchdog over Iran's actionAs an NPT member, Iran has a good bilateral relationship with the IAEA, signing a safeguards agreement with it, and it was the IAEA that has acted as a reliable watchdog over Iran's actionas a reliable watchdog over Iran's actions.

For example, he could name a blue - ribbon commission to look over the redistricting committee's shoulder, to act as a watchdog and fact gatherer at the public hearings.

The FBI has turned over 7,000 new documents from Anthony Weiner's private laptop to the State Department as part of a watchdog group's lawsuit related to last year's Hillary Clinton email case.

The suit could serve as a test case for her year - old unit, which has faced questions about its independence from Cuomo, and its ability to be an effective watchdog over what in the past has been a sparsely enforced election laws.

His call came as Labour promised to reform Parliament's standards system in the wake of controversy over the decision of a panel of MPs to overrule a watchdog's judgment on Mrs Miller.

He could beat the Republicans over the head with the LLC loophole because the Democratic - controlled Assembly and Senate Democrats support closing the loophole, as do all of the watchdog groups and independent experts and editorial boards,» said Kaehny.

Government watchdog groups have described the practice of prioritizing timeliness over policy details as «political theater.»

Over 300,000 social housing properties are still not classed as «decent», according to a public spending watchdog.

The recent debate over Muslim women wearing full face veils could see a return of riots as seen in Barnsley and Oldham in 2001, Britain's race watchdog chief has warned.

Attorney Peter Henner is taking on the Cuomo administration's plans to spend $ 500 million over the next three years to upgrade Internet broadband capacity in under - served areas across New York — not battling the idea itself, but rather seeking to carve out a role as a watchdog in the complicated, years - long process.

The State Department released a WikiLeaks - related email from Clinton's personal account that official watchdogs for the intelligence community and the department flagged over the summer as appearing to contain classified information.

As a poll found that 82 % of Tories believed that Miller should lose her job over her expenses, the work and pensions secretary said he was «very open» to a proposal by parliament's expenses watchdog to introduce independent regulation of MPs.

Beyond the New York State Comptroller's responsibilities as fiscal watchdog over the state's finances and the management practices of state agencies, the position has particular importance to CSEA members.

Do you really want a Democ» rat» ic as the «WATCHDOG» Attorney General to watch over the PENSIONGATE SCANDAL.

That year, he created the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to serve as a lobbying regulator and an omnibus watchdog over the executive branch and Legislature.

Mychajliw, meanwhile, believes his work and accomplishment as an opposing - party watchdog to Democratic County Executive Mark Poloncarz, will win over voters who see him as a champion for taxpayers.

They are running roughshod over the will of Congress that established the NOSB as a buffer to insulate organic regulations from corrupt corporate lobbyists,» said Mark A. Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin - based nonprofit that acts as an organic industry watchdog.

The watchdog rated nine schools as inadequate and eight as in need of improvement, meaning that over 2,000 pupils are being educated in schools operating under unsatisfactory standards.

The controversial Government Agency, also known as the CFPB, implemented by the Obama Administration to act as a consumer watchdog over the lending and financial sector.

Instead of operating as aggressive watchdogs over management and corporate assets, many boards act more like lapdogs.

Their loving nature can at times turn disadvantageous, as they get over friendly even with strangers, which prevents them from being good watchdogs.

This duty expanded after the French Revolution, and the Briard was used as a herding dog and as a watchdog, tasked with keeping watch over an entire property.

Over the years, Shar - Pei have served as farm dogs and fighting dogs, but they are now most often pets and watchdogs.

This can be annoying as you can end up shelling out over # 40 for a new release, such as Watchdogs, only to end up being disappointed and wishing you hadn't bought it.

UCS has served as an industry watchdog for over four decades, and we have repeatedly seen that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not enforce its own safety regulations.

His charge over the next few months is to build an organization that acts as the oil industry's watchdog — not its partner.

While the EPA has been a good watchdog over private industry, someone too has to act as watchdog when the EPA oversteps its own mandate.

But the truth is a lot more complicated than a talking point, something which a Dutch advertising watchdog has recognized as it takes two fossil fuel companies to task over misleading ads about natural gas being the «cleanest of all fossil fuels.»

Clifford Chance (CC) and Slaughter and May have won advisory roles as the UK's competition watchdog raises concerns over MasterCard's proposed # 700m takeover of UK payments company VocaLink.

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To end the acrimony between the two regulators, the government issued an ULIP Ordinance on June 18 as capital markets regulator SEBI and insurance watchdog IRDA could not resolve their dispute over which of them was empowered to regulate such products.

The insurance industry will remember 2010 as an eventful year in which insurance regulator Irda came out on top in a turf war with market watchdog Sebi over the regulation of Unit - Linked Insurance Products, with the end result of such schemes becoming investor - friendly.

The cryptocurrency mining script injection found on over 4,000 websites, including those belonging to UK's National Health Service (NHS), the Student Loan Company, and data protection watchdog Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Queensland legislation, as well as the US government's court system.

The FTC serves as the consumer watchdog over privacy issues, so it's no surprise that the company is investigating Facebook's conduct in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data - sharing scandal.

The UK's data protection watchdog, the ICO, has also applied for a warrant to gain access to CA's offices and servers — accusing the company of failing to hand over information the regulator had requested as part of a wider investigation it's carrying out into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

European lawmakers demanded answers from Facebook on Tuesday over a major data breach, as Britain's information watchdog sought a warrant to search the London offices of the analysis firm involved.

«It is important to note: Not all licencees are REALTORS (r), therefore their actions, causes, and reactions can slip below the radar of the industry watchdogs, and that alone is part of the fear of the industry as a whole; there is no policing those who choose to operate outside the rules and regs established over the years.