Sentence examples for failed oversight from inspiring English sources

Just as corporate greed, speculation and deregulation destroyed the retirement savings of millions of Americans, the same greed, lack of accountability, transparency and failed oversight systems is threatening the well being of 300 million Americans, both physically and financially.

As I read about baby formulas and jars of salsa laced with who-knows-what, I was left slack-jawed as I learned that the financial industry wasn't the only industry that had experienced deregulation, lack of transparency and failed oversight.

But the report and most of the few mainstream media accounts ignored altogether an even more fundamental example of failed oversight: the federal government's lax monitoring of state Medicaid programs dispensing these potentially life-threatening medications to children.

All of of us need to understand, as we follow Obama's economic team and the ongoing bailouts, just what's being done with our taxpayers' dollars -- and the failed oversight that got us here in the first place.

After all, Iowa is the place where Iowa legislators have made it possible to produce 11.3 hogs per person annually and created some of the most polluted rivers and streams contributing to the Dead Zone in the nation due to continued poor legislation and failed regulatory oversight.

A report this week by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, called Failing Oversight: Iraq's Unchecked Government, relates how the Electricity Minister was forced to resign "accused of having signed multibillion-dollar contracts with a Canadian shell company [one with a physical address but no assets or operations] and a German company that had declared bankruptcy".

It is also still important to ask why government oversight failed so spectacularly.

"One of the things that bugs me is that Congress has failed in its oversight abilities," Obey said.

But he said he did not believe the Bank of Italy failed in its oversight of the institution.

Awarding increased power to those who failed in their oversight duties flies in the face of all notions of accountability.

Cole affected 9/11, how removing the director of central intelligence from running the C.I.A. would work, and how Congress's intelligence oversight failed abysmally.