oversight
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However, Fitch in its downgrade of Delaware Life said the plan may prove “insufficient to fully address governance, reporting, and investment oversight issues.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“We are organizing the Division to be lean, flat and agile, reducing excessive bureaucratic oversight so that the Fraud Division’s career prosecutors…can focus on following the facts and charging violations of the law.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Senator Ruben Gallego called for "an official oversight visit with the bipartisan Senate Delegation to the USS Lincoln to investigate the reported alarming conditions," in a post on X.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Craig said that from her seat in Congress, she took on the administration by conducting oversight, helping get constituents released from custody and fighting against the opening of new detention centers in Minnesota.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
By some huge oversight on her part, Beth left her diary right out in plain sight when she went to California.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Alejandro, the gas station attendant, said he felt there were "too few oversights" of mining projects.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Mistakes or oversights in DOT regulations could lead to lawsuits or even injuries and deaths in the transportation system.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
The report blamed the upgrade delays on a number of oversights, including failure to develop a plan for managing all of its facilities projects, which are instead proceeding separately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
“Serious oversights like this not only jeopardize the integrity of individual cases but also sow public distrust in the criminal legal system and call into question the efficacy and accuracy of criminal investigations.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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