Sentence examples for auditing powers from inspiring English sources

He also vowed to strengthen controls and transparency, saying in a debate this past week that the government has controls and auditing powers at its disposal.

The bill failed to include any explicit mechanism for ensuring that the police put an end to the practice, like the appointment of a monitor with auditing powers.

The report also says that local geographic school districts created decades ago should be re-established to give parents more access and influence, and that the city's comptroller should have the same auditing power over the Education Department as he does over other city agencies.

It wants the city comptroller to have the same audit powers over the Department of Education as over other municipal agencies.

He promises to use the audit powers — including new ones overseeing the city's education contracts — to increase productivity and efficiency.

To that end, my amendment will expand the audit powers of the Government Accountability Office ("GAO") over the Federal Reserve to all financial activities of the Fed.

He promises to make the comptroller's office more streamlined, to upgrade its technology, to hedge more cautiously against deep downturns, and to use his audit power to help agencies work better.

It's understanding that the audit power of the office is not just to figure out how many paper clips were bought and delivered, but to be the smartest, most thoughtful voice on a policy level.

A new infringement procedure was started again this year, after the revision in October of the 2008 figures, and the same audit-like powers were again requested from the member states.

The exercise of power by the king and high officials were monitored by robust systems of auditing.

Proposals to give the European Union's statistical agency, Eurostat, sweeping powers to audit the accounts of national governments were weakened by officials within the European Commission, the executive of the 27-nation bloc, because of worries in some countries about giving too much power to the European Union.