Sentence examples for are overseen directly from inspiring English sources

Some of these are to be given school-improvement partners to chivvy them into raising their game, some taken over by better-performing neighbours, and some closed forthwith and replaced by "academies"—state-funded independent schools that are overseen directly from Whitehall.But these half-measures do not seem to have done even half the job.

Korea Taepung International Investment Group, which is trying to strike mineral deals and promote Rajin-Sonbong, is overseen directly by central leaders, including Mr Kim's uncle, Jang Song Taek, who has done business with the Chinese for years.It is hard to see how the economy could be modernised without abruptly destroying the state's paternalistic ruling mythology.

Sources said the talks have been overseen directly by Sony Music Chairman Andrew Lack and BMG Chairman Rolf Schmidt-Holtz.

Foreign military sales are negotiated directly between the United States and other governments and are overseen by the State Department, the Pentagon and Congress.

Federal loans are overseen by the Department of Education.

(Following the passage of the decentralization law, the executive powers of the préfets were transferred to the elected conseils généraux; moreover, many functions previously performed by the central government were devolved to the newly created régions, units of local government that each encompassed a number of départements and that were overseen by directly elected regional councils).

Libor is not directly supervised by regulators in Britain but is overseen by its sponsor, the British Bankers Associationn.

African operations were overseen largely from Rome.

(Again, every deed is overseen by books).

It is overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation.

It is overseen by the Cantonment Board.