Sentence examples for overseeing a program from inspiring English sources

His most recent tour in government was from 1996 to 1998, as President Clinton's assistant secretary of energy in charge of cleaning up the nation's nuclear weapons complex, overseeing a program of about $6 billion a year.

Osman spent five years in Baghdad during the American war, overseeing a program to train local journalists to cover the government responsibly and aggressively; many of those journalists were murdered while pursuing stories.

Following a push from the White House, the US labor department is overseeing a program requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to submit wage data by gender, race and job classification.

"At a certain point the school system becomes no longer viable," said Grant Oliphant, the new president of the Pittsburgh Foundation, which is overseeing a program that provides college scholarships worth up to $40,000 for any student who has attended the city's public schools since the ninth grade and graduates from high school with a grade point average of at least 2.0.

"It is dishonest to claim real savings by reducing the number of [government] employees overseeing a program but increase the real cost of the program by transferring oversight to contracts.

An alumna from Cornell University with an M.B.A. from Yale University School of Management, Mason began working in international aid early in her career, overseeing a program serving malnourished children in Cambodian refugee camps in 1979 and serving as a co-country director for Save the Children's work in Sudan during the 1980s before returning home to co-found Bright Horizons.

He also oversees a program that aims to provide $10,000 college scholarships to 100 students in Cleveland.

He also oversees a program to help poor students attend college.

"People are so excited," said Robbie Grady, who oversees a program helping to refurbish the town center.

Since 2004, the Department of Health and Human Services has overseen a program called Project BioShield to develop and stockpile vaccines and treatments, known collectively as "medical countermeasures," to defend against the pathogens.

She arrived two months ago from the Securities Industry Association, where as associate general counsel she oversaw a program to promote diversity on Wall Street -- itself a challenge of significant proportions.