Sentence examples for overseer about from inspiring English sources

She refused to coöperate, arguing that it was improper for agents of the executive branch to threaten a congressional overseer about her sources.

At the hearing, Warren and Neiman grilled Herb Allison, the Treasury Department's bailout overseer, about the administration's mortgage plan, citing some of the same problems we've been hearing.

Despite that, the committee has concluded that the torture was an ineffective means of gathering intelligence on al-Qaida – contradicting years of CIA assurances it was crucial – and that the agency lied to its overseers about its value.

Everett's unhappiness with the post was apparent early on, and by April 1847 he was negotiating with Harvard's overseers about the conditions of the job.

The document's release marks the conclusion of an explosive, high-stakes feud that played out between the White House's chief spying agency and its powerful Senate overseers about how much of the report to release publicly.

Yet long before "waterboarding" entered the public discourse, the CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of that technique and other harsh interrogation methods, according to interviews with multiple U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge.

As the volunteer overseer of about 7,000 acres adjacent to the trail, Mr. Blake knows that region very well.

She sits smiling on the very edge of the roof, her hands jammed in her coat pocket, something of the overseer still about her stance.

Defense lawyers maintain that Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz earned all the benefits they received from Tyco and that all the appropriate overseers knew about their compensation and loans.

We met a woman and her baby, both with HIV, who didn't want to be photographed by our camera crew; she sells in the market and if she were "seen on TV" people would discover she has HIV and not buy from her. Me listening to an overseer at Tema General Hospital speak about HIV/AIDS in Ghana and prevention of mother to child transmission.

As the packing overseer observes when Tamsin complains about the management's impositions and lust for profit: "Do you think about where your clothes come from?