Sentence examples for aggressive watchdog from inspiring English sources

"They have been an aggressive watchdog".

He was also an aggressive watchdog against wasteful government spending.

Over most of the eight years since it was formally established, the board has rarely functioned at all, let alone proven to be an aggressive watchdog.

It is one of the worst-run cities in America, but it is also among its most vibrant, and absent an aggressive watchdog in the form of a daily paper, I don't see things getting better".

David Simon, the former journalist who wrote the iconic TV series, The Wire, thinks a city "absent an aggressive watchdog in the form of a daily paper" faces problems.

In effect, it would have neutered Congress' most aggressive watchdog.

He recess-appointed aggressive consumer watchdog Rich Cordray to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and asked aggressive Wall Street prosecutor Eric Schneiderman to co-chair a new task force to investigate financial fraud.

Or will you block consumer protection and instead protect wrongdoing by companies that caused the financial crisis?" As Ohio's attorney general during the crisis, Mr. Cordray became known as an aggressive Wall Street watchdog.

Yet as aggressive as those watchdogs have been, neither has matched Mr. Spitzer in propelling shivers up Wall Street spines.

The country's aggressive news media and watchdog groups have highlighted the House's excesses, in often mocking tones.

The £150bn UK credit card industry is to come under investigation this month by the Financial Conduct Authority over accusations of aggressive marketing after the watchdog suggested it had been pushing "payday loans with plastic".