Sentence examples for devoted to overseeing from inspiring English sources

The first objection is that the law would create an unwieldy bureaucracy, with a regulator atop other entities devoted to overseeing functions such as syndicating loans or bundling the loans of small banks.When the plan was announced, the price of shares in Fannie and Freddie, which account for about two-thirds of the mortgage market, did not budge at first.

An outstanding lawyer, he was devoted to the Association, overseeing its reorganization and building renovation.

Cleopatra's role also seems to be a bit overbearingly insisted upon in the last part of the exhibition, which is devoted to the excavations overseen by Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, whose patronage is required for any exploration of Egyptian antiquities.

I guess not," says Dmitry Grigoriev, appointed by Russia's Olympic Organising Committee to oversee the Adler Arena, devoted to speed skating.

Al Yellon, for example, who has run Bleed Cubbie Blue, a site devoted to the Chicago Cubs, will oversee the Chicago site.

Sending a signal that it intends to become a serious competitor in the field of contemporary art for the first time in half a century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has recruited a prominent London curator to oversee a new department devoted to art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The government regulates the amount of land devoted to the cultivation of rice and oversees the distribution of it in designated stores.

Rabbi Manis Barash, who oversees an institute here devoted to Rabbi Loew's work, said that "because of the financial crisis, people were increasingly turning to spirituality for meaning".

This week, the value of Silver's predictions became even clearer, when it was announced that the 35-year-old was leaving his berth at The New York Times and taking his blog, FiveThirtyEight, to the ESPN network, where he will oversee a new site devoted to statistical analyses of sports, politics and other fields.

This was run by the same amiable gym-coach-like woman who oversaw exercise, and it was devoted to board games of the Trivial Pursuit variety.

In addition to running the Helsinki Art Museum, where he oversaw many major international exhibitions devoted to artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Georg Baselitz, Dr. Sirén helped spearhead the possible creation of a new $185 million Guggenheim Museum in Finland.