Sentence examples for watchdog only from inspiring English sources

The watchdog only learned about it when the woman's MP took up her complaint this year.

The Care Quality Commission, the NHS watchdog, only a little less dramatically says that in many parts of England emergency care is now "out of control".

According to the latest index of perceptions of corruption compiled each year by Transparency International, a Berlin-based watchdog, only eight out of the list of 176 countries were seen as more graft-ridden.

According to Contas Abertas, a public-spending watchdog, only a fifth of federal money budgeted for urban transport in the past decade was actually spent.Just 1.5% of Brazil's GDP goes on infrastructure investment from all sources, both public and private.

But far from resolving the situation, Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, and Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, only served to reinforce the deep divisions among countries.Mr Blix had been under huge pressure to provide evidence that would settle the argument one way or another.

Mr. Clavin is right to assert that a comptroller should be an independent watchdog accountable only to citizens, but he is wrong about which candidate in this race better fits that description.

Chappell: So would you say Equality Illinois doesn't just act as a watchdog for only LGBT members?

Human Rights Watch, an international watchdog, says only 14 people were convicted for the killings.

Of 29 military charities vetted by the American Institute of Philanthropy, a nonprofit watchdog group, only nine received passing grades in managing resources.

He claimed the watchdog was only now approaching police officers to establish where they were positioned at the time of the shooting.

From September, the education watchdog will only give nurseries and pre-schools with acceptable standards either "good" or "outstanding" ratings – the "satisfactory" rating will be scrapped and replaced with "requires improvement".