"auspices" is a correct and usable word in written English, and is typically used to refer to the support or authority that someone with a particular role or responsibility (such as a leader) provides to a project, event, or activity.
Example sentence: The new project is being carried out under the auspices of the mayor.
In the past, under the auspices of the information commissioner (we now live in a world overseen by multiple commissioners), the emphasis has been on commercial CCTV.
In February 1950 a West German national side was reformed under the auspices of Herberger, who survived the post-war process of denazificartion despite having been a member of the party since 1933, once more.
Businesses were meeting, under the auspices of the French government, to set out their aims ahead of the global conference in Paris this December, at which governments are to set out their commitments to limit greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020, when current commitments run out.
Both former BBC chairman Christopher Bland and Channel 4 chairman Lord Burns told the convention on Thursday that the BBC should be put under the auspices of Ofcom, which already regulates the corporation's output on issues of harm and offence.
All represent a different balance of advantages and disadvantages, both from America's point of view and in terms of fighting international terrorism:An ad hoc international tribunal set up under the auspices of the UN Security Council: this has been proposed by some American legal experts and could win broad support among America's allies and human-rights groups worldwide.
Having signed a peace deal under American auspices in September, the two sides are now bickering over its implementation.
It still has done little to reform its antiquated divorce laws.Kerry makes the effortThe pace of diplomacy over Syria hotted up, as the American secretary of state, John Kerry, shuttled around the Middle East in the hope of holding an international conference under UN auspices.
Corporate universities usually come under the auspices of firms' human-resources departments, which are usually not geared up to do a more rigorous analysis of what they achieve.Privately, some firms confide another benefit of shifting management development in-house.
Schroders traces its roots back to 1804, when it traded in the tobacco, cotton and sugar markets; Cazenove started out as a stockbroking firm in 1823.The European Union and Japan agreed to start talks on a free-trade pact, thelatest instance of countries trying to establish trading arrangements outside the auspices of the listless World Trade Organisation.
Most battalions now fall under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence or the Ministry of Interior.
When government leaders gather in Seattle in late November to launch a new push for trade liberalisation under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation, much attention is sure to be paid to the massed ranks there of green demonstrators, shouting loudly that free trade in general, and the WTO in particular, are ruining the global environment.As a general statement, this claim is plain wrong.
