Sentences with phrase «as watchdogs of»

To exercise their rightful role as watchdogs of government, Canadians need to understand who and what they are watching.

Our support team also serves as watchdogs of quality.

The state has agreed to hire a monitor and a research expert to serve as watchdogs of the New York City foster care system to settle a federal class - action lawsuit that alleges foster children are enduring irreparable harm after lingering too long without permanent families.

Further, the industry saw the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, take on a more active role as a watchdog of the domestic bitcoin exchange ecosystem.

Not exact matches

Others, such as consumer watchdog Public Citizen and the preventive medicine advocacy group Trust for America's Health (TFAH), had very different takes, arguing Cures mostly benefits pharma companies at the expense of other important public health initiatives.

The prosecutors» office in Vienna is consolidating «hundreds of complaints» about a scheme known as «Optioment» that have been filed at police stations across the country, and which add to a warning by financial watchdog FMA, spokeswoman Christina Ratz said by telephone.

Young already had a history of acting as a watchdog for crew safety and firing off blunt memorandums when the Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff in January 1986, killing all seven aboard.

The corporate watchdog has told the public to steer clear of a potential scam website that uses the same registered business name and the same business number as the recently privatised Market City.

Premier Colin Barnett has voiced his opposition to The West Australian's proposed purchase of The Sunday Times as the competition watchdog raised concerns of its own.

«Part of what happens is when you've got a watchdog, people don't try as many things,» said Obama.

«A man's legitimacy as an ally to women is only fully expressed when he is an intentional exemplar and fierce watchdog for the behavior of other men,» write Johnson and Smith.

The largest U.S. student loan servicer, Navient (navi), cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars, often by deceiving them about repayment options and their legal rights, the U.S. consumer financial watchdog said on Wednesday as it announced a lawsuit against the company.

Britain's competition watchdog has fined Pfizer a record 84.2 million pounds ($ 107 million) for its role in ramping up the cost of an epilepsy drug by as much as 2,600 %.

On June 4, the ITC, the U.S. agency that serves as a watchdog on international trade, ruled in favor of Samsung's patent and limited the ability of Apple to sell some older smartphone products.

BEIJING, April 9 - China's quality watchdog said on Monday that Tesla Inc will recall a total of 8,898 Model S vehicles in the country starting on June 28, as part of a broader, global recall announced last month.

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters)- The U.S. derivatives regulator has sent a subpoena to two of the world's largest cryptocurrency platforms, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, as watchdogs globally increase their scrutiny of the emerging asset class.

As part of financial reform, President Obama tasked one consumer watchdog with «looking out for regular people in the financial system.»

Pruitt has had a «consistent disregard for transparency from the time he was attorney general to his time as EPA administrator,» the leader of a watchdog group said.

AggregateIQ is now among 30 companies being investigated by the UK's data watchdog, the ICO, as part of an ongoing (and now almost year - long) investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

(Incidentally, the UK's data protection watchdog is conducting just such an audit of Cambridge Analytica right now, after obtaining a warrant to enter its London offices last month — as part of an ongoing, year - long investigation into social media data being used for political ad targeting.)

Late last month Denham revealed the watchdog had been looking into Facebook's partner category service as part of its political probe, examining how the company used third party data to inform targeted advertising.

The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).

The same federal watchdog is now investigating Facebook as a result of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal.

They join as adjustments are made to governance and operations of the new watchdog to spread out power and decision making more broadly among the provinces and assuage concerns it would be too Toronto - centric.

Martin Gruenberg, the final Democrat among top US bank watchdogs, is a growing source of frustration to Wall Street, as the last man standing in the way of a deregulatory wave.

Think tanks and industry watchdogs Rogue players can give your industry a bad reputation, but formal definitions, guidelines, and regulations improve credibility and direct negative sentiment toward individual companies instead of the industry as a whole.

Mark Carney watches above the world's sixth - biggest economic climate as governor of the Financial institution of England and heads a international banking watchdog, but somehow nonetheless finds time to train for a marathon.

New Democrat defence critic Jack Harris accused the government of not only keeping the public in the dark, but watchdogs such as the parliamentary budget office, which had a tough time compiling its own estimate on the war earlier this winter.

and Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the federal watchdog agency to research and report on the economic subsidy that too - big - to - fail banks receive as a result of actual or perceived taxpayer support.

The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a dose of liquid nerve agent as large as 50 - 100 grams, according to the director general of the international chemical weapons watchdog.

The other nations say the deal is working — as does the UN watchdog tasked with monitoring Iran's compliance — and that they are not interested in pulling out of it and rejoining the US in slapping on new sanctions.

Money Control IPOs The company had filed IPO papers with Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in January and received «observations» from the regulator on April 3, as per the latest update with the markets watchdog.

A whistleblower is accusing some key financial regulators of allowing sensitive broker information to become readily accessible, even as industry watchdogs emphasized the need for companies to protect client data.

Recently, religious freedom watchdogs have begun emphasizing more the different sources of persecution, such as government and social hostilities.

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

But besides serving as dharma watchdogs, Buddhist communities are the support system, the heart, and the glue of Buddhism.

Sir Michael, the head of education watchdog, Ofsted has also claimed poverty is too often used as an excuse for educational failure among white working - class families.

Even though Syrian officials agreed to destroy their massive stockpiles of chemical weapons more than a year ago, a disturbing new report from a watchdog agency found evidence that mustard gas was used as recently as August.

With the support of the American Center for Law and Justice, as well as other Christian watchdog organizations, efforts to ensure Christians are legally able to practice their faith in Russia continue.

H.R. 1150 serves as an update of the 1998 bill that established a religious freedom office in the State Department and an independent watchdog panel, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

The American Civil Liberties Union has been in the forefront of fighting for tolerance and has served as the watchdog for signs that the nation's historic and numerically dominant faith - Christianity - is receiving preferential treatment.

The deal comes as the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog prepares to announces whether or not the country is within compliance of a nuclear agreement they struck earlier this summer.

Too many times, we can be like over-eager watchdogs, sniffing out any morsel of what we deem as offensive, inappropriate or even «heretical.»

Mark A. Kastel is cofounder of The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin - based farm and food policy research group that acts as an organic industry watchdog.

As many of you know Gluten Free Watchdog has been sending various «glutenase» enzyme supplements to the lab for gluten testing.

As is the policy of Gluten Free Watchdog, all labeled gluten - free products testing at or above 20 parts per million gluten will be retested within one year of the original test date.

A Senate committee last month said Australia's foreign investment watchdog may need to be strengthened, even as it highlighted concerns that the increased scrutiny of agricultural deals could deter overseas buyers.

See also Lucy Barbour, «Competition watchdog ACCC head Rod Simms (sic) denies claims an «effects test» would be «economically dangerous» (ABC Rural, 18 August 2014), in which the ACCC Chairman defends the ACCC's proposed effects test (and is also reported as saying that the current case against Coles was brought under the unconscionable conduct provisions rather than under s 46 because the misuse of market power prohibitions is a law that exists only between competitors...)