ride herd
Example Sentences
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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the United Network for Organ Sharing already ride herd on organ procurement organizations.
From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2019
Grissom hadn’t been able to ride herd on the Apollo spacecraft from its earliest manufacturing stages as he’d done with Gemini.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2019
Lowey promised to ride herd on the administration to help get the Republicans the information they're demanding.
From US News • Apr. 13, 2016
Marcia Gay Harden and Luis Guzmán ride herd over some first-year medical residents in the new drama "Code Black."
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2015
They learned, also, how to "ride herd," "ride line" and how to live in the open, with the prairie grass for a bed and the star-studded sky for a blanket, their saddle forming the pillow.
From The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X by Gooch, Thelma
