Sentence examples for failure to oversee from inspiring English sources

But the public outrage over the government's failure to oversee financial institutions has created a much tougher regulatory environment in which companies cannot afford to fall short.

But though many have lamented the Americans' failure to oversee the creation of a functioning government or to bring security to Iraq, their presence may have been a stabilising factor and their departure has left people fearful for Iraq's future.

Ms. Schapiro cited lax regulation of asset-backed securities, an excessive reliance on credit rating agencies, executive compensation that encouraged unhealthy risk-taking and a failure to oversee hedge funds and private equity funds.

A report last year by a panel headed by George J. Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, excoriated the U.S.O.C.'s failure to oversee Salt Lake City organizers whose illicit gifts to members of the International Olympic Committee helped win the rights to the 2002 Winter Games.

The Labour MP asked: "Are you telling this committee that as a result of parliament's failure to oversee the security services, and the failure to have the necessary expertise, and the failure to have a sufficient budget, that's why you were obliged to publish, otherwise nobody would have found out".

The university's Commission on Student Affairs declared that the student newspaper's failure to oversee and remove troublesome anonymous comments from its website violated the school's "principles of community".

Serious concerns over the failure to manage or oversee up to 78,000 volunteers in NHS hospitals, many of whom have close contact with patients, have been raised in the independent report into the fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal.

But the kicker was the punitive damages award in the case, which accused Citigroup's brokerage unit, Smith Barney, of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and failure to supervise the broker overseeing the Hagmans' funds.