Sentence examples for resisting oversight from inspiring English sources

Resisting oversight.

Corzine, a former C.E.O. of Goldman, took over a company partially owned by the firm of another ex-Goldmanite, Christopher Flowers, and managed, in a year and a half, to destroy it, in part while resisting oversight from a government regulator (the Commodity Futures Trading Commission) whose chairman, Gary Gensler, is also an Goldman alumnus.

Some consumer advocates said the telecommunications failures were predictable for an industry that resists oversight.

On one side, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as government-sponsored mortgage lenders, have enough political influence to resist oversight.

It is also one of the most contentious, because lawmakers have traditionally resisted oversight by outsiders.

Mr. Nagin was a staunch defender of Mr. Riley, who routinely resisted oversight from the city's own police monitor, refusing to hand over documents the office requested.

Yet between the two extremes lies another, much bigger group of firms, which continue to waste precious capital and resist oversight, but remain solvent enough to carry on as before.

Their bosses are usually appointed by the central government, but they often ally with regional leaders to resist oversight by a variety of largely toothless regulators.One problem is China's system for "dispatch"; that is, determining which power sources will supply electricity to the grid at any given time.

Inside City Hall, Ms. Sadik-Khan developed a reputation as a difficult colleague who resisted oversight, according to current and former administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the mayor's distaste for public discussion of internal business.

George Bush resisted oversight and accountability for 8 years.

"The image portrayed in the Study of an organization that—on an institutional scale intentionally misled and routinely resisted oversight from the White House, the Congress, the Department of Justice, and its own OIG simply does not comport with the record," the agency's response said.