Sentence examples for usual oversight from inspiring English sources

That's not to say the United States shouldn't push back, hard, against any effort to expand the ITU's role beyond its usual oversight of telecommunications standards.

Thanks to a century-and-a-half old loophole, Federal prisons are able to award no-bid contracts for providing financial services to prisoners without the usual oversight that should accompany the contracting process.

Forest City Ratner is trying to run this through the Empire State Development Corporation, a Robert moves-like move that would remove this privately owned project from the usual public oversight and community input.

In an article that the two of us published in 2009, we labeled it "regulation by deal," and observed that it was a form of regulation immune from most of the usual sources of oversight.

The chairman of the special committee, Representative Dick Armey of Texas, the House Republican leader, told Mr. Ridge flatly that "it's not likely that that's going to happen," but Mr. Ridge said the usual close Congressional oversight could cripple the new department's ability to respond to terrorism.

Ministries have already submitted their spending plans, including pork for favoured groups, hoping for the usual lack of political oversight.

For security reasons, relationships with informants are often carried out in secret, with little oversight; the usual temptations become hard to resist.

But the usual indenture requires little oversight.

The initial $12.5 million was transferred to Groves from an account in the office of the United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., that was not subject to the usual accounting auditing and oversight.

While buying the latest weapon accessories, he could support Texas values and purchase only from Texas-based retailers, thus ensuring that Texas taxes continue to be spent on their usual things — everything but regulatory oversight of industrial polluters.

To critics, the statement of accountability sounded like FIFA's business-as-usual approach of shunning outside oversight.