Sentences with phrase «little oversight of»

Supplements are not regulated by the FDA like drugs so there is very little oversight of the quality of the products sold to pet owners.

Over time, civilizations and technology have developed such that fur is less of a necessity and more of a luxury... Further, more animals are now killed to make decorative fur trim than to manufacture full fur garments... Existing laws require relatively little oversight of the fur farming and fur trade industries.

There are thousands of teacher preparation programs in the United States and there's very little oversight of them.

It has been 25 years since the charter movement began, and it has not evolved exactly as supporters had hoped, with too little oversight of too many charters.

There is little oversight of the money funneled to private consultants who provide training to teachers, or guidance to help principals figure out which ones help improve student achievement.

chools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

We feel that schools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

But our evidence also suggests that a 15 - year period with little oversight of academic quality may be too long to wait to intervene and potentially close schools that are producing subpar results.

Not exact matches

In some industries — emergency medicine, airlines, trucking — long shifts with little sleep are the norm, and managers worried about potentially deadly oversights are paying increasing attention to the effects of sleep deprivation (many railways now have directors of alertness or similar roles).

They're then able to build on the fact that there is little or no government oversight — not to mention taxes — on many of the sharing economy's business traffic opportunities.

But regarding where the CEO lived, Weinberg showed how little the board was in charge and his own ambivalence about the board's level of oversight.

But the deal also marks yet another small but significant step towards greater regulation of Airbnb, Uber, and other companies in the so - called sharing economy, whose competitive advantage arguably hinges on its ability to operate with little oversight.

After years of largely disregarding their warnings about exactly what companies like Facebook were doing — that is, collecting enormous amounts of information on its users and making it available to third parties with little to no oversight — the general public suddenly seemed to care about what they were saying.

Most of the offerings have little legal oversight and some appear to conflict with the commission's basic advice.

According to one Cambridge University study from 2017, 73 percent of exchanges «take custody of user funds» with little to no oversight, all the while providing bad actors with the convenience of a single point of failure.

With little by way of investment or industry, and with generally poor demographics, Greece's overall economic viability remains in doubt, as does its capacity to carry through the drastic reforms that its creditors have exacted as the price for a third bailout, especially as resistance hardens to the measures and onerous oversight insisted upon by the international lenders.

If secondary trading of CTK Tokens is facilitated by third party crypto - currency exchanges, such exchanges may be relatively new and subject to little or no regulatory oversight, making them more susceptible to fraud or manipulation.

Third, abortion advocates, without any doubt, are attempting to further their agenda by using international meetings that have little if any political oversight by, or democratic accountability to, the electorates of the nations attending those meetings.

It was just a little oversight on the part of the scientists.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

Medical ethicist Arthur Caplan toldThe New York Times that there is likely «little or no oversight of processing fees.»

At this time, however, little oversight or transparency exists to ensure oil profits are spent in a socially and economically responsible manner and there is little insight into the details of leasing arrangements.

United States Attorney Preet Bharara's attention has been drawn away from his normal stomping grounds to Buffalo, intrigued by what critics say is a shadowy network of state authorities and state - controlled non-profits handing out large business subsidies and contracts with little to no oversight.

That's what led Warren Buffett to describe derivatives that were bought and sold with little oversight as «financial weapons of mass destruction.»

At the same time, the precedent of having a unconstitutional law that allows a private foreign company the power to operate with little oversight in a European country is not a precedent to be desired.

Prosecutors also maintained that the grants came out of a specific pool of money with very little public scrutiny or oversight.

And there's been very little meaningful oversight of the spending.

Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»

Weak oversight and a lack of transparency is not limited to the legislative branch; it extends through much of state government, including a Board of Elections hobbled by politics and understaffing and a procurement process that critics say does little to prevent fraud and corruption.

«Senator Skelos and his conference don't want comprehensive campaign finance reform because they've figured out a way to collect tons of campaign cash from a wealthy few with very little oversight or accountability.

In that instance, however, little of substance changed: The school board, which had been faulted for its oversight of the system, was reconvened and met just once, for nine minutes.

SYRACUSE, NY (02/13/2013)(readMedia)-- CSEA — New York's leading union — has filed a lawsuit against Onondaga County, challenging the transfer of the county's public nursing home, the Van Duyn Home & Hospital, to a local development corporation — a non-regulated shell corporation that has little oversight and no accountability to taxpayers.

«Every time he answered another question, we were more and more horrified by what he had to say,» Rosenthal told Gotham Gazette of Galante's 2014 testimony, «and what we unearthed is that there was very little oversight for the Queens library president.»

«A lot of these products are made with little or no oversight in foreign countries,» said Sen. Jose Peralta (D - Queens).

One has taken almost $ 3 million in state funding from out - of - district lawmakers with little scrutiny or medical oversight.

A 2014 report by the Correctional Association of New York, an independent non-profit that inspects state prisons and report on conditions, found Clinton Correctional Facility is a place where there is little oversight, guards regularly beat inmates, and racial tension festers between prisoners and correction officers.

The group Citizens Union issued a report regarding $ 3 billion in the state budget, in various pots of money, that they say operate as veritable slush funds for state lawmakers to distribute to projects with little oversight and accountability.

Here in New York, despite corruption scandals of historic proportions, there has been little movement to overhaul oversight to rely on independent agencies.

The NRC «provided little meaningful regulatory oversight of corrosion of piping in the Byron essential service water system, one of Byron's most risk significant systems,» his version states.

Communities are left to struggle with the consequences of too much pavement and too little oversight.

For the University of Sussex's Carreck, the fact that so little is known about the detailed implications of climate change for species that are seemingly ubiquitous and vital, but are nonetheless under attack, is an oversight that needs to be corrected.

Billions of dollars already have been spent on existing border fencing, with little to no environmental oversight, Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.

Van Driel said that the legislation would make it «impossible for many, if not most, natural scientists [physicists, chemists, biologists, computer scientists, etc.] to practice their professions in industry, government, and universities» without the oversight of an engineer «who might know little or nothing about the specialty.»

A good deal of industrial fishing occurs in international waters, where fleets compete with little oversight or regulation.

While interest in this area continues to grow, little has been done to ensure regulation and oversight of the sale of products containing CBD.

While the commission's report, released in December 2010, provides key recommendations for the oversight of synthetic biology that have led to actual regulations, it has little to say about the do - it - yourself biology (DIYbio) movement — the practice of self - taught or informally trained individuals running experiments in makeshift laboratories.

I have traditionally seen little oversight with TRT via pellet therapy, the medication is not FDA approved, and the implantation method is more invasive and carries with it a greater risk of scarring and infection.

In the U.S., there is little oversight in the big business of vitamins and supplements.

Several books have charted the years between Easy Rider and Heaven's Gate, when directors like Robert Altman and Michael Ritchie made «personal» pictures on relaxed schedules, with little in the way of studio oversight.

Galvin's pal, a lawyer named Mickey Morrissey (Jack Warden) has drummed up a little work for him: An open - and - shut malpractice suit against a Catholic hospital in Boston where a young woman was carelessly turned into a vegetable because of a medical oversight.