Sentence examples for overseeing moves from inspiring English sources

Liz Truss, the environment secretary, is overseeing moves to scrap the statutory codes on farm animal welfare and move to an "industry-led" guidance as part of her department's deregulatory agenda.

He also oversaw moves to make the World Service the BBC's first licence fee-funded operation to take advertising and sponsorship, a change that proved contentious and prompted accusations of a "facile" rush to commercialism.

At Starwood, which operates five W's in Manhattan and six other hotels, Barry S. Sternlicht, the chairman and chief executive, has personally overseen moves and consolidations intended to cut costs and drive up occupancy without making severe layoffs.

Former BP chief executive Lord Browne has been appointed to oversee moves to make Whitehall "more businesslike".

He oversaw moves to make aid more transparent and repeatedly pledged to enshrine in law an obligation for the UK to spend 0.7% of its national income on overseas aid - something which has angered some of his Conservative colleagues.

The operating room may someday be run by robots, with surgeons overseeing their moves.

The officer overseeing the move looked at the oozing bag with disgust.

Judge Jackson chose breakup because the two companies would then compete and innovate without having government officials overseeing every move.

(Bing was the institution's great modernizer, overseeing the move to Lincoln Center and pioneering the telecasts, as well as bringing Placido Domingo, Birgit Nilsson, and Renata Tebaldi to its stage.

(The legal system was tasked with overseeing this move forward. An amnesty law was passed in 1977 that halted the prosecution of Franco-era crimes).

There was enough unease among the UMass faculty that the faculty senate created a 18-member ad hoc committee charged with overseeing the move to F.B.S. football.