Sentence examples for merely oversees from inspiring English sources

He asserts that the port operator merely "oversees the coming and going of ships, making sure they are properly loaded and offloaded in the most cost-effective manner".

I am merely overseeing the panda section.

I merely oversee the result of the torture and add the coup de grace - a Preface.

Life at the NSA I began to move from merely overseeing these systems to actively directing their use.

He has called the euro "the currency of occupation" and remarked that the president of France would soon merely oversee a vassal state to Brussels and exercise "a little less power than the governor of Nebraska, Idaho or Massachusetts".

Renamed the Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the office will not merely oversee the distribution of grants to religious and community groups, but will also look for other ways to involve those groups in working on pressing social problems.

In short, Vlad looks like a peacemaker when he's merely overseeing what amounts to a Carthaginian victory over the anti-Assad rebels.

In a majority of the companies we've encountered, the frontline manager's role is merely to oversee a limited number of direct reports, often in a "span breaking" capacity, relaying information from executives to workers.

We urge that community advisory boards be used to help shape research design, not merely to oversee community collaboration issues.

She's a bit more organized than me, which is good, because in her day job she has to attend to a room of screaming fourth graders, and I, as an editor, merely have to oversee a smaller room of disgruntled journalists.

It merely owns the grid, and oversees the work of a utility company — National Grid, which is in the final year of its contract — that it pays to keep the power flowing.