Sentence examples for without a watchdog from inspiring English sources

Without a watchdog of this kind the bail-outs could easily have escalated into a wave of tit-for-tat subsidies for national champions.

Some employees hired by one of the consultants, Promontory Financial, to pore over hundreds of thousands of Bank of America foreclosures said that without a watchdog some consultants worked to minimize the number of homeowners found to be harmed.

"I do think that's a concern, and I think it's quite important for senior crime journalists to be able to meet senior police officers and talk openly and freely without necessarily a watchdog or press officer sitting on your shoulder recording every word or listening in on every word".

Last week it censured the Daily Telegraph for its undercover recording of Vince Cable, confounding those who say it is a watchdog without teeth.

Without a good watchdog, the boy confesses, such a scenario might prove frightening.

"You can participate in politics without seeking office by acting as a watchdog, by mobilizing people to demand their rights," he told The WorldPost.

Reformers must beware the preference for placing a committee of all the regulators as a watchdog over the financial system without succinct powers to act resolutely.

Perhaps the Labour MP Paul Flynn put it best: "You are supposed to be a watchdog, Acoba, but you are watchdog without teeth or claws".

You may think you're better off without a strong S.E.C., but you're not, because you need a watchdog on Wall Street.

"I go as a watchdog".

He said the industry needed an "effective watchdog, a tough watchdog, a watchdog with bite and with investigative powers.