Sentence examples for improving scrutiny from inspiring English sources

Another fib is to pretend that all reform requires election, when in fact the key reforms – reducing the numbers, improving scrutiny, evicting criminals, reducing political patronage, dealing with the hereditaries – could be achieved without election.

In the government's white paper consultation last summer, the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, predicted that opening up more government data would improve public services by improving scrutiny and encouraging excellence, give people "real choice", cut the costs of FoI requests, and "re-establish individual responsibility".

Maybe companies will change their boards to improve scrutiny over complex new instruments.

The treaty is designed to streamline EU decision-making and improve scrutiny of its policies.

He also helped to improve scrutiny of the Bank of England, another shortcoming exposed by the crash.

She is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the organisation and works directly with a range of organisations to improve scrutiny, governance and public involvement.

The select committees established in 1979 have greatly improved scrutiny over the executive; and, as Professor Philip Cowley of Nottingham University has shown, members of Parliament, far from being Mr Blair's poodles, have been much more willing to dissent since 1997 than the knights of the shires and trade-union hacks who peopled the back benches in the 1950s.

The judgment, weeks after a similar rebuff, prompted calls for a radical overhaul of the system; the commission plans to appoint a chief economist and improve scrutiny.See article: Mario Monti of the European CommissionVivendi Universal confirmed that it would sell its non-American publishing businesses to Lagardère, France's second-largest publisher, for euro1.25 billion ($1.2 billion).

Federal auditors said that the government should improve scrutiny of the source of investment funds, noting a case in which a petitioner was found to have potential financial ties "to a number of brothels in China," according to an August 2015 report by the GAO.

This approach aims to improve scrutiny and accountability, which most people would agree is a "good thing".

Increasing the number of AMs would improve scrutiny of ministers and "future-proof" the Welsh Assembly for future challenges, Prof Laura McAllister has said as chair of an expert panel.