Sentences with phrase «of watchdog»

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) today asked insurance companies to refrain from charging policyholders differential premium without prior approval of the watchdog.

And an interim board member says the new national reconciliation commission will act in the role of a watchdog.

Eisai and Pfizer — which market Aricept — were unable to properly challenge NICE's decision because of the watchdog's refusal to allow access to the economic model, the court ruled.

A representative of the American Association of Law Libraries sits on the steering committee of the watchdog group that fights to push back government secrecy.

It seems that almost any letter initiating or threatening legal action of any kind will find its way to the internet, at least on JD Supra and on any number of watchdog sites.

But when it comes to climate science, there is no middle ground, said Rick Piltz, director of the watchdog group Climate Science Watch.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

This will not make him any less of a watchdog or protector of home and family.

In many instances, their role is simply that of a watchdog.

The role of the Watchdog is to detect territorial intruders, detect threatening people or animals, to possibly confront but not ever bite, and to alert the owner that something is wrong through barking.

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.

If you're in search of watchdog who will bark to let you know if someone suspicious is around, the Corgidor is a good choice.

Inside the country, members of Watchdog Thailand recently met with senior military officers in the junta and urged them to pass an animal rights law that would outlaw killing dogs for meat.

Don't get us wrong — the German Shepherd is also a very friendly dog and it has characteristics of a watchdog.

Socialization will not make it less of a watchdog but it will make the dog less aggressive and more tentative to spring into hostile action.

For the timer, in computer land, my understanding of a watchdog timer, is something that waits for a reply or status update, and if it doesn't get one to reset something.

«There needs to be a further de-linking of test scores from educational high - stakes decisions about students, teachers and schools,» says Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of the watchdog group Fair Test.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw is to take personal charge of the watchdog's investigation into claims that a number of schools in Birmingham have been taken over by Muslim hardliners.

Staff and parents hoped a report would be released last year — the long investigation has led to criticisms of the watchdog, which now has ultimate authority over an academy's charitable status.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the larger MATs take a more critical view of the watchdog.

Ofsted's next inspection framework will promote a more «collaborative» approach to leadership, in a move away from the «male - dominated» culture of the watchdog's past, a senior inspector has...

According to ethical fashion it - girls Sara Weinreb, creator of capsule wardrobe label IMBY, and Natalie Grillon, co-founder of watchdog organization Project JUST, it's all about buying high - quality pieces that you know the story behind.

Sealed «black cells» stall Hanford tank waste cleanup Scott Learn, The Oregonian, March 17, 2013 «One of the huge design failures is black cells,» said Tom Carpenter, executive director of the watchdog group Hanford Challenge.

DoE now admits that,» says Tom Carpenter, executive director of the watchdog group Hanford Challenge.

Susan Lerner, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause New York, called the nonprofit, which predates the de Blasio administration but was not previously run by the mayor's wife, a «backdoor way to curry favor.»

The job of the Public Advocate is, most fundamentally, that of a watchdog, ensuring that all New Yorkers receive the City services they deserve and have a voice in shaping the policies of their government.

«It's about whoever gets to be mayor, the industry has to have access,» Susan Lerner, of the watchdog group Common Cause, told the Daily News.

The Assembly member for the Nii Doku Electoral Area, Yusif Gariba, noted that «it was around 6:00 am that I was called by one of the watchdog committee members in the area that a young man believed in his thirties has allegedly committed suicide on a neem tree at the Jericho Agric park.»

As Doug Kellogg of the watchdog group Reclaim New York told The Post: «It's strong - arming government workers. . .

Meanwhile, rumours abound that Gove has lost a battle with Cabinet colleagues on the proposed powers of the watchdog.

The online process can be performed unilaterally by firms without JCOPE approval, according to two sources with knowledge of the watchdog entity's protocols.

Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said nonprofits run by elected officials are ripe for abuses.

Just Monday, Dick Dadey, the Executive Director of the watchdog group Citizens Union complained to WNYC: «We're hearing nothing from him and legislative leaders.»

They need independent oversight from the attorney general and comptroller and more transparency,» said John Kaehny, executive director of the watchdog group Reinvent Albany.

The governor also named recently retired President of the state's AFL - CIO Denis Hughes, as well as the head of the watchdog group Citizens Budget Commission, the Mayors of Syracuse and Buffalo, and a construction union leader to the panel.

Business secretary to announce creation of watchdog to monitor progress of white paper goals as biotech investment revealed

Agata will be the third executive director of the watchdog entity in its five - year history, and the third to have come to the panel from Cuomo's service.

But the severest confusion was around online news and comment sites, like politics.co.uk, which may or may not fall under the remit of the watchdog.

With the help of watchdog websites like Littlesis and the Public Accountability Initiative, this new site also lists more than 100 buildings and businesses with which Paladino or his company, Ellicott Development, is associated.

E.J. McMahon of the watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy wrote that the new budget includes nearly $ 500 million in «the biggest, murkiest, pork - barrel slush fund in Albany — and perhaps any state capital — has ever seen.»

Dick Dadey, head of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said that while it wasn't against the law for de Blasio to assist his bundlers and other supporters — unless he engaged in an illegal quid pro quo — «they shouldn't have any more access to him than the average New Yorker.»

«You've got to be kidding me,» Dick Dadey, director of watchdog group Citizens Union, told the New York Daily News.

«The whole scheme of collecting big campaign contributions from people with business before the city is very unseemly,» said Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union.

He could beat the Republicans over the head with the LLC loophole because the Democratic - controlled Assembly and Senate Democrats support closing the loophole, as do all of the watchdog groups and independent experts and editorial boards,» said Kaehny.

Susan Lerner, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause, called the matching program «half - baked.»

Board member Ken Olisa talks to us about why MPs shouldn't need to sleep in their offices and how some mistakes were inevitable because of the rapid creation of the watchdog.

The FBI has turned over 7,000 new documents from Anthony Weiner's private laptop to the State Department as part of a watchdog group's lawsuit related to last year's Hillary Clinton email case.

The balloon has finally burst after months of watchdog groups and journalists pointing to what appeared to be — and were — rigged state construction contracts in Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany.

«I strongly suspect that there has to be a complete level of rage from the transit - riding public in order to make this happen,» John Kaehny of watchdog group Reinvent Albany told Miller.

He indicated that the vigilance of the members of the Watchdog Committee at Asankabreman near Asankragwaa had also led to the retrieval of four pistols from a resident in the area, one Abubakar Alari, now at large.