oversight

• He never could bring himself to that ever watchful scrutiny and assiduous oversight, which is so necessary among slaves, whose maxim it is to work as little as possible, and to plunder all they can. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
• The FDIC's aggressive stance comes just ahead of the Obama administration's big revamp of financial oversight, which is expected in mid-June. —  Baltimore City Paper
• "You can imagine not having any oversight, and not needing to do anything, to being completely responsible almost overnight." —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
• By calling it income, Erwin is admitting only to an oversight -- failing to report income from the previous year, at a time when he was not working for the county. —  PE Angels Baseball
• We needed an administration that was willing to do the job of oversight, and unfortunately the Supreme Court installed a president in December of 2000 who was unwilling to do that, and a slim majority of the American people, driven by fear, chose to legitimize his presidency in 2004. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

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