Sentence examples for against oversight from inspiring English sources

He's probably the only chair to use his position to argue against oversight.

Corrections officials, who tend to rebel against oversight of just about any kind, want Gov. David Paterson to veto this bill.

BankBoston operates in 24 countries, so must guard against oversights caused by local differences.

According to the report, the commission's very structure worked against its oversight role.

We, the undersigned black critics and black writers, here assert ourselves against such oversight and harmful whimsy.

But he is against concentrating oversight powers in the Federal Reserve, which he sees as having been woefully slow to perceive the structural changes in markets.

In accordance with China's policy against foreign oversight of religion, the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, which officially represents Chinese Catholics, does not recognize the authority of the pope.

"I've never seen a Congressional member argue so strongly against Executive Branch oversight as Sen. Feinstein did today re the FISA law," said Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brother and winner of presidential elections in June, shocked the country by issuing a decree that assumes vastly widened powers for his office, including virtual immunity against judicial oversight.

When "Beloved" failed to be nominated for a National Book Award (Pete Dexter's "Paris Trout" won that year), forty-eight prominent black intellectuals and writers, including Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alice Walker, and Quincy Troupe, protested "against such oversight and harmful whimsy" in a statement that was printed in the Times Book Review.

Uber used the disclosure to push back against regulatory oversight, claiming in a Medium post that regulators like the California Public Utilities Commission often require far more data than is necessary and can sometimes compromise riders' privacy.