Sentence examples for defense oversight from inspiring English sources

"They were not patrolling the border," said Adam Isacson, the director of the defense oversight program at the nonprofit Washington Office on Latin America.

On the other side, cuts to defense spending and oversight of the Pentagon is not up for discussion.

"I disagree with anyone who says derivatives did not play a part in the crisis," he said in defense of more oversight.

4. Wall Street: In a March, 2008, speech at Cooper Union, Obama delivered a robust defense of financial oversight, depicting the deregulation of the Clinton and Bush years as a "corrupt bargain in which campaign money all too often shaped policy".

Jennifer Robinson, one of Mr. Assange's London lawyers, said that the inclusion of the women's names in the defense documents was an oversight that would be corrected.

Perhaps the most shocking thing in the report is how little oversight the defense department seemed to have over this spending.

Then, on Sunday, the generals issued an interim constitution that removed the military and the defense minister from presidential oversight and named a 100-member panel to draft a new permanent charter, replacing one appointed by Parliament.

And, he says, Israel's defense decision making and oversight are flawed, as numerous probes have shown, making a careful lowering of the nuclear mask all the more urgent.

But Judge Rakoff wrote that he was disturbed by that approach, and said that he assumed the decision not to send a copy of the letter to the defense lawyer was "an oversight".

It supported an 18-year-old voting age, opposed funds for the war in Vietnam and advocated greater oversight of defense spending and the influence of political-action committees.

The new committee resurrects strong central government oversight of defense R&D.