Sentences with phrase «kept as a watchdog»

The breed later became known as the barge dog because it was often kept as a watchdog on the small vessels navigating the Rhine River.

This breed was and is kept as watchdogs, as friends, as playmates to children, and as protectors of families.

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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.

«Unions, Democrats and people of all backgrounds and political parties recognize the importance of keeping me as their independent watchdog,» Mychajliw said.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Watchdog groups warned Tuesday that New York may be giving up too much by transferring $ 700 million from a public fund to Exelon Corp. as part of the deal to keep open the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County.

As a scientist remarked to me this week, why do we keep watchdogs if they don't bark?

I'm thankful for the Coen brothers» keeping a vital genre alive, for Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington finding a cinematic perspective on war unmatched, and for making it back to share it with us all, as I am for Charles Ferguson's watchdog mentality and journalistic integrity.

They were kept as good - luck charms and watchdogs and originally used for herding sheep as well as retrieving items off the mountainsides.

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.

If your boxer is kept inside and not trained as an aggressive watchdog, yet has a tendency of biting you and the other dogs, it is possible that the dog has too much energy without decent activities to do.

Kept as good - luck charms and watchdogs, and originally used for herding sheep as well as retrieving items that fell below mountainsides, Tibetan Terriers are agile, excel in the snow, and love to climb.

They're also excellent watchdogs as they like to keep an eye on everything going on around them, but they're far more likely to greet any strangers with a tail wag and a kiss than any aggression.

Same answers apply here as previous games and indeed upcoming games: Unless you, the buying public were going to be happy with say PS4 costing # 600 + by keeping all that lovely fast Ram, but having more powerful CPU / GPU etc to deliver at least 1080P 60 FPS games like Watchdogs in the 1st 18 months at least, it was never going to happen.

Just as we've been the watchdogs of the coal, oil and fossil fuel, we're going to have keep a similarly critical eye on the green energy sector to make sure that environmental best practice is adhered to, that corners aren't cut in the haste to green our respective grids.

Nevertheless, as The Guardian reports, analysis by the Government's own waste watchdog, Wrap, suggests that a return to weekly collections for trash will lead to both a sharp drop in recycling rates and an increase in costs as councils are forced to keep more collection vehicles on the road:

Though the watchdog group is getting stronger, reaching its tentacles into localities where dirty officials tend to be as rampant as dirty water, and locals are fighting back, even taking polluters to court, the toxic tales keep creeping in.