Sentence examples for watchdog activities from inspiring English sources

The organisation runs projects ranging from home construction and health programmes to police watchdog activities and the management of two discount supermarkets.

The spread by this disease is caused, quite largely, by the steady expansion of the investigations carried out by Congressional committess in the name of loyalty, plus the many special watchdog activities of patriotic organizations that throw themselves about rather wildly in time of nervous strain.

According to the Business Dictionary, an NGO is a "private sector, voluntary (and usually non-profit and non-sectarian) organization that contributes to, or participates in, cooperation projects, education, training or other humanitarian, progressive, or watchdog activities".

It did not touch on press regulation until last month, when a group of peers, frustrated by the lack of progress on the Leveson report among the political parties, won overwhelming support in the Lords to add sections to the bill covering a newspaper watchdog's activities.

But watchdog groups say activities surrounding his inauguration Monday are among the priciest of any incoming governor and take advantage of a loophole in campaign finance that allows wealthy special interests to gain access to those who hold political power.

A decade of intermittent Iranian engagement with the UN's nuclear watchdog and diplomatic activity follows.

It seems natural that nervous MP's would seek to forestall any independent oversight over their own potentially illicit activities, and watchdog groups have been quick to slam such developments.

The staffing-up at the business association comes at a sensitive moment as several older 501(c)(4) groups face increasing scrutiny from government regulators and private watchdogs about their political activities.

Of the concerns about criminal activity, the watchdog said it was "satisfied that certain essential details were not broadcast which may have enabled the successful commission of a crime, and that there was a sufficient editorial justification for including the material broadcast".

BRUSSELS — Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, on Tuesday endorsed a variety of new watchdog agencies to supervise financial activities across the European Union.

This brought praise from Public Campaign, a campaign finance watchdog that has criticized the activity of political nonprofits not disclosing their donors.