Sentence examples for oversaw the completion from inspiring English sources

In 1881 he became general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway and oversaw the completion of its construction (1885).

He also helped to negotiate the Aventis marketing deal and oversaw the completion of the third phase of clinical trials for Picovir.

In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century B.C. a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion of an inscribed stone monument, or stele, to be erected upon his death.

As head of the team of historic buildings inspectors in the early 1980s he oversaw the completion of a nationwide listing survey on behalf of Michael Heseltine at the Department of the Environment (DoE).

Although Henry died just as construction began in 1930, Emily oversaw the completion of the library and assisted with funding in the midst of the Great Depression, personally contributing millions of dollars to the completion of the project.

Next to Victoria's black gown, for instance, is the elaborate dress worn by Emily Warren Roebling — who oversaw the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband was incapacitated by the bends — for her presentation to the Queen in 1896.

A civil engineer, Turnkey has been hired to oversee the completion of a 500-mile railway across British East Africa.

The incongruity of a military dictator being the one to have overseen the completion of the project is not lost on either the architect or the administrator.

Wada staff shall oversee the completion and transfer of the work in progress at the Moscow laboratory to other accredited laboratories.

But the offices moved to a smaller house down the block and a Haramain official continues to oversee the completion of the charity's expensive new religious boarding school on the outskirts of Jakarta.

"It's a curious thing, because Gobineau was the father of modern racism," said Mr. Dines, who at age 79 is overseeing the completion of Casa Stefan Zweig, the museum created at the house where Mr. Zweig lived.