For schools, there was no national curriculum, no parental choice, no systematic means of monitoring performance, no publication of examination results beyond what schools themselves chose to reveal.
"In the last six months the authorities have added new legal, technological, and political means of monitoring, controlling and restricting the flow of information and expression in various media.
What is so surprising about the trading losses is that foreign exchange operations are supposed to have effective means of monitoring the activities of their traders.
The implications for increased state surveillance are obvious, not just at border controls, but as a means of monitoring public protests or gatherings.
The issue is not just that this mandate is regarded by the umpires as an unfair means of monitoring their performance on the field.
This helps, perhaps, to explain why, in medieval Christendom, clocks replaced sundials as a means of monitoring the hours of worship.
The goal, Dr. Morison said, is eventually to devise a permanent means of monitoring changes in the ice and the waters flowing beneath it from the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the great rivers of Siberia and Canada.
As people's computers become their mailboxes, home shopping malls, entertainment centers and more, he said, technologies like the key logger system give law enforcement "a secret means of monitoring all of that activity".
Their work begins at the handsome town green, allegedly paced-off by Peter Stuyvesant, who established Fort Casimir here in 1651, as a means of monitoring and intimidating the Swedes, who had settled the area in the 1630's.
