Sentences with phrase «much of a watchdog»

The clever little Bolo Tzu is a social, affectionate dog that gets along well with kids, other pets and even strangers — so not much of a watchdog but great for apartment living.

Not exact matches

THE latest splurge of files unleashed by self - appointed global watchdog Wikileaks has much intriguing detail for observers of the Western Australian business scene.

The Canadian unit of Amazon.com will pay a $ 1 million fine, or, or $ 756,659 U.S., to settle an investigation into pricing activities on its website that gave an inaccurate view of how much consumers could save, Canada's competition watchdog said on Wednesday.

Australia's competition watchdog believes the planned global merger of oilfield services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes could give the combined group, and current market leader Schlumberger, too much power.

According to Washington watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Mnuchin has frequently opted for using military aircraft for his travel instead of taking commercial planes, which would come at a much lower cost to the taxpayer.

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 %.

Greg LeRoy, the executive director of corporate watchdog group Good Jobs First, isn't sure how much Georgia's bill will influence Amazon's decision — if it hasn't already been made.

Messianic Jews say their relationships with other Jews, even other rabbis, are much better than the statements of Jewish spokespersons and watchdog groups would suggest.

David Stringer, a 56 - year - old real - estate broker and brother of NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, is a serial tax deadbeat who owes the IRS and state Tax Department as much as $ 447,370 while his brother preaches financial prudence as the city's budget watchdog.

«Although school aid is statutorily capped at the annual growth rate of personal income, the projected increase for next fiscal year is a much larger 7.5 percent,» the budget watchdog wrote.

Likewise, Governor Cuomo's derelict and incompetent staff lost my documents twice last year, under the direction of a now defunct employee named Lindsay Saffron, and you can understand how I will never be able to trust all unreliable and unstable politicians, much less government watchdog agencies that continue to ignore corruption that is within their purview to complete and investigate.

A new standards watchdog has to monitor the condition of private rented property because so much of it is in «poor condition and is poorly managed», according to the Law Commission.

The head of the NYPD's captains union said he was pleased that the chairman of the city's cop - watchdog panel has resigned — but insisted that the agency's problems run much deeper and wholesale change is needed.

«The state spends millions of dollars on state watchdogs, and yet we don't even hear so much as a growl from them.»

But the Article 29 Working Party, which is composed of data protection watchdogs from the EU's 27 member states, hit out at the plans to collect PNRs [Passenger Name Record] at all, let alone on the much more expansive basis proposed by the Home Office.

And while not much came of most of these probes, nobody can deny that the watchdog was at least watching.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

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.

The worries have triggered three reports by NSF's in - house watchdog, the Office of Inspector General (IG), that have revealed, among other things, that a rotator can cost NSF as much as 23 % more than a regular government employee doing the same job.

In a 2008 grocery prices report, consumer watchdog the ACCC backed claims that staples such as eggs, milk, cheese and bread were much of a muchness.

The State Commission of Investigation, New Jersey's public - watchdog agency, found that a handful of top school administrators were paid as much as 65 percent more than what was publicly reported.

Brian Lightman, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, rejected the education watchdog's warnings about too much low - level disruption in schools in England.

Families» chances of having a good local school depend too much on which part of the country they live in, warns England's education watchdog Ofsted.

The watchdog warns that just 60 per cent of schools will be «on formula» by 2019 - 20 because of a 3 per cent cap on how much any school can lose over the next two years.

Too much pressure on schools in England to get good GCSE grades led to over-generous marking of coursework by teachers, the exams watchdog concludes.

«I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that most MPs are doing better in office than they would in their careers in private life,» says Duff Conacher, co-ordinator at Democracy Watch, a government watchdog in Ottawa.

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.

Look at Watchdogs, which allows you to hack into pretty much anything with a small electronic device (in - game, of course).

The present exhibition includes some of the much known Paik's robot - sculptures, among them, Beuys Voice 1990, Gertrude Stein, 1990 and Watchdog II, 1997.

This is particularly true when it comes to corruption: it ranks 33rd out of 176 countries — much better than its neighbors — on the 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index from the nonprofit watchdog Transparency International.

What's even more disturbing to watchdogs like Wood is that almost all of the U.S. cities pushing forward with the U.N. «climate change» agenda are doing it without so much as holding a public hearing, let alone a voter referendum.

I served for years as the technical watchdog for scientists and engineers, we had partners from the public sector, and I didn't sense any particular difference in behavior, other than those of us who worked for private outfits were paid better and had a much crisper and efficient work environment.

A Whitehall boss has admitted that the government is «paying too much» to law firms just weeks after the government's spending watchdog criticised the level of Freshfields» fees on the # 757m sale of Eurostar.

According to tech watchdog KGI Securities, it's pretty difficult to make the shiny Jet Black casings, with as much as 30 to 40 percent of production being rejected by Apple for not meeting quality standards.

It's unclear how much of that talk is puffery, but it was certainly enough to prompt the UK's data watchdog to seek a warrant to raid the company's headquarters and get Nix suspended.

In a credit emergency, ID Watchdog promises to help you arrange a credit freeze, but you need to do much of the work yourself.