Sentences with phrase «failed as a watchdog»

The media has been near silent on Snowden (apart from The Guardian who published his revelations), while Parliament has utterly failed as a watchdog.

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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.

In a speech in Sydney on Thursday, Mr Sims will warn Australian firms that the competition watchdog will not protect them from competition from new players such as Amazon - even if it means some firms will fail.

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While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lauded the program as a departure from the secretive «pork barrel» spending of the past — «It's a waste of money, we did it for a lot of years, it failed,» he told Politico New York in February — the program has come scrutiny by lawmakers and fiscal watchdog groups as at best, overly optimistic and at worst, lacking oversight and tainted by scandals that have marred other economic initiatives, including the Buffalo Billion.

As the independent party funding watchdog published the financial accounts of the main political parties, the British National Party (BNP) and Christian Party were warned they could face substantial fines for failing to submit their accounts on time.

In a statement signed by Messrs Michael Iloegbunam and Nnamdi Ozoh, National President and National Secretary respectively of the association, the body stated that as a watchdog organisation, it would not hesitate to expose any candidate, political party or group that fails to play according to the rule during and after the election.

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Despite an oversupply of credits and waning confidence in the CDM from both market players and civil society watchdogs, the report presented an optimistic and biased view of the CDM and its future while failing to recommend concrete solutions to address some of its fundamental flaws, such as additionality testing.

The statement by Jay Clayton came just hours after the U.S. securities watchdog stepped in to stop an «initial coin offering» (ICO) from a restaurant review app, after the company failed to register it as a security.

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.

The respected consumer watchdog previously cited the new laptops» «highly inconsistent» battery life as the reason it couldn't give out one of its coveted recommendations — the first time an Apple laptop had failed to make the grade.