Sentence examples for which watchdog from inspiring English sources

State lawmakers and regulators in recent years have moved to rein in the practices of payday lenders, which watchdog groups say often charge exorbitant fees for low-income consumers with little financial sophistication.

Andal Ampatuan Jr., son of the family patriarch, Andal Ampatuan Sr., is currently on trial for the Nov. 23, 2009 killings in Maguindanao, which watchdog groups say included the worst-ever mass killing of journalists.

Next, we design a reputation system in which watchdog nodes identify selfish nodes based on their direct and indirect watchdog information and distinguish individually and socially selfish nodes.

In this paper, we propose a Social-based Watchdog system (SoWatch) in which watchdog nodes analyze messages received from their encountered nodes with respect to their social tie information to identify the nodes' selfish behavior in message relaying.

As the financial crisis loomed, in 2008 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took a hard look at both Lending Club and Prosper and both businesses were forced to shut down while regulators assessed how they'd be overseen and by which watchdog.

Ms Jowell even indicated she would consider a system in which watchdogs had the power to pre-vet programmes, a move that would horrify broadcasters now accustomed to "light touch" regulation.

Furthermore, we design a watchdog evaluation module to protect SoWatch against wrong watchdogs disseminated by malicious nodes in which a watchdog node investigates the truthfulness of the indirect watchdogs before applying them.

Officials at the DoH are said to be frustrated at the slow speed with which the watchdog reacted.

Is a painful example of the inconsistency of inspectors' judgments, which the watchdog recently owned up to.

Delingpole was further criticised for making claims about the health risks associated with wind farms, which the watchdog noted were contrary to "extensive academic research" on the subject.

The senior Tory said the rioting had "substantially weakened" an already thin case for cutting funding, which a watchdog has warned could lead to the loss of 16,200 officers.