Sentences with phrase «role of a watchdog»

Over the years BPNI has played the role of a watchdog organization and exposed several big baby food brands on how they undermined the IMS Act.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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 %.

China is merging its banking and insurance regulators and transferring some of those watchdogs» roles to the central bank, the government has announced.

It even plays the role of what Paul Nizan calls «watchdog»; that is, to the extent that it calms passions or preaches patience or permits the poor man to bear his poverty or holds up the light of hope, to that extent it becomes a party to injustice, inhibits revolt against it and supports evil.

Australia's competition watchdog wants a strong presence in the future of dairy processing that extends well beyond its role in shaping Saputo's $ 1.3 billion acquisition of Murray Goulburn.

To play a leading role in the promotion of high quality patient care and to act as an independent watchdog for better regulation of safe healthcare.

Common Cause and a coalition of reform groups, including the League of Women Voters, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany recommend reinstating the state Comptroller's role as a watchdog over state contractors.

«It's pretty clear that all of the state ethics watchdogs are not really meeting their role,» said Horner who said there's been an «unbelievable» series of scandals in the legislature and governor's office in recent years.

The firm's dual role — consulting for political candidates and then advising the groups trying to sway them — is gaining the attention of government watchdogs.

For all the background on the rising costs of the Olympics, the failure to introduce adequate competition for key 2012 contracts, Ken Livingstone's role in the sorry affair and the souring of public opinion we recommend The TaxPayers» Alliance's 2012 Watchdog blog.

The request was drafted by Rosendale councilwoman Jen Metzger and will be shared with other municipalities in the pipeline's proposed path, thereby continuing Rosendale's track record of taking a lead «watchdog» role on the project.

As psychological perceptions go, this had to give the DiNapoli camp some kind of boost in its watchdog role.

One of the Conservatives» most powerful and generous donors is at the centre of a political and financial storm after City watchdogs savaged his firm for its role in the Libor interest - rate fixing scandal.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara took on the role of investigating the Buffalo Billion after none of the watchdogs in state government would.

He appears to have irritated the ethics watchdog, which considers whether new jobs for former ministers could present a conflict of interest, by announcing his appointment before they were given time to review any potential conflict with his duties as MP and his former role at the Treasury.

If the Lib Dems were whipped to support a vote on implementing Leveson (albeit an amended version to address Clegg's misgivings on Ofcom's role in verifying the new watchdog and on data protection), the working majority over the Tories would be 35 (303 Tories versus a new combined total of 335 of the rest).

The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan has thrust the NRC's role as industry overseer squarely in the spotlight, but another critical player in U.S. nuclear safety is the NRC's Office of the Inspector General, an independent agency that serves as watchdog to the watchdog.

Even at some of the nation's more robust death investigation units, staffers worry that they do too few autopsies to fulfill their watchdog role.

He had chaired the board of England's education watchdog - setting the strategic direction for the more high - profile role of chief inspector, currently held by Sir Michael Wilshaw.

In this lesson, students consider the definition and responsibilities of «citizen watchdogs,» develop a culminating set of strategies or guidelines for combating confirmation bias as they consume and create news and information, and consider the very powerful role of social and mobile media as tools for social change.

The Local Government Association says 91 % of council maintained schools are rated good or outstanding by education watchdog Ofsted - so they should be allowed «to play a direct role in raising education standards and improving life chances, including taking on the running of failing academies».

While the Secretary dismantles the Department's role as a watchdog for student civil rights, she has remained silent in the face of new reports of discrimination, violence and shameful neglect in the nation's public schools.

Although provocative, ``... a handful of agents, all of whom spoke to PW on the condition of anonymity, said they're worried that contracts from print - first imprints will increasingly come with clauses indicating that the publisher makes no guarantee on format» (meaning, no guarantee the publisher would produce a print version of a work), what stood out for us was that literary agents are fulfilling this watchdog role for authors... an advantage most indie authors don't enjoy.

The October «Watchdog» column detailed Wills history of questionable associations; his proximity to missing money at other humane societies; and his role as Hoyt's longtime protege and rumored eventual successor.

Such dogs were expected to do a variety of roles around the ranch: play with the kids, watchdog, move the livestock, and then do a bit of hunting work (in this case, hunting for hogs).

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

In addition to its other roles of working dog, playmate, hunting dog and watchdog, the Airedale Terrier also makes a great show dog.

Markey's committee also played a key role investigating the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, demonstrating its role as an important polluter watchdog in Congress.

This comes at the same time that United is being called out by industry watchdogs for its major role in lobbying against new regulations to begin curbing the massive amounts of climate pollution the airline industry is responsible for.

One major role of the media is, after all, to be the government watchdog and as such it's understandable to usually focus on lackings and suggested improvements.

Thanks to the Internet, surrogate - expertise is far more effective (and rapidly so) than ever before: The blogosphere itself plays the role of collective experts & consumer protection watchdogs.

Clifford Chance (CC) and Slaughter and May have won advisory roles as the UK's competition watchdog raises concerns over MasterCard's proposed # 700m takeover of UK payments company VocaLink.

Review of hair tests finds they did not play key role in custody cases, but watchdog criticizes findings.

To exercise their rightful role as watchdogs of government, Canadians need to understand who and what they are watching.

In terms of openness, the media obviously has a critical role to play and has argued that it should have unfettered access to the family courts as a watchdog or «proxy for the public».

News reports about Facebook's role in the aggressive form of data collection also have raised serious questions about whether the company violated a landmark consent decree with a federal watchdog agency designed to prevent privacy violations.

Further, the industry saw the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, take on a more active role as a watchdog of the domestic bitcoin exchange ecosystem.

The reports set out how I will go about my role as the independent watchdog to monitor the performance of governments on Indigenous issues.

They haven't stepped up and assumed the role of industry watchdog — continue to encourage them to do so and provide feedback when you see questionable behavior.