| 词汇 | example_english_watchdog |
| 释义 | Examples of watchdogThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Pediatric ethics committees: ethical advisers or legal watchdogs? To put it differently, politicians behave like old watchdogs returning to their kennels, whereas the media resemble a pack of hounds briefly following the interests of the day. What you must have is a body that hears the watchdogs barking, takes note of it and then takes some action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have always been the watchdogs of the earnings rule. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You cannot expect to protect the fold unless you keep watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our constituents' letters tell us that people consider that those watchdogs have failed, and that they want politicians to do something about the problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The outside directors, who should have acted as watchdogs, seem especially worthy of censure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The watchdogs in the constituencies, the committees of all political parties, know what it is all about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would break it down even further and go to the new community health councils as the watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The public have statutory rights through consumer watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Amazingly, the plethora of watchdogs associated with the industry seemed to stand by and watch matters go from bad to worse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, naturally, if people have watchdogs and safeguards, they expect them to be effective. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would be watchdogs to see that councils did not overspend. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are rightly often referred to as the independent health watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Watchdogs play an important role, but more are needed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would set their agendas as watchdogs and champions for children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of watchdogs, we will have lots of poodles—a fragmented and highly confusing network of poodles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not watchdogs for the taxpayer, but much more often jackals for private interests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There have been voluntary watchdogs, but who appointed them? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a lot of areas they have proved to be fairly toothless watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While committees and watchdogs multiply, unemployment, insecurity, poverty and the relocation of enterprises are increasing at a frantic rate. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Local newspapers act as watchdogs of the public interest and as local marketplaces for advertising, large and small. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us keep low what can be kept low and small-scale what can be done on a small scale, with the national parliaments as watchdogs. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We need to work with private-sector organisations, and we need civil society watchdogs. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We have watchdogs for all sorts of things in public life and in industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Strong and effective councils, with members solely appointed on merit, have an important role to play as consumer watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They can brief lawyers and their watchdogs to look after their interests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Accountability brings me to the position of the watchdogs established at the time of privatisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the watchdogs, and they have got to come forward and defend their position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even the community health councils, the supposed watchdogs for the consumers, lack any real independence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As proponents of an overall consumer viewpoint of their industries and as watchdogs in a wider sense, they can claim little success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Gas and electricity consumer councils tend to become closely identified with the organisation about which they are supposed to be watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The inspectors cannot be the effective public watchdogs that they should be if their hands are tied by legal delays. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need to look again at these issues because our various ombudsmen are our national watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a free society we know that journalists have to be public watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is this another example of the authorities seeking by stealth to take away our watchdogs' power of criticism? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We believe that it is right that landlords and agencies should not be required to be the watchdogs of their tenants. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An application cannot be dismissed peremptorily; it cannot be done through a series of intermediaries, secretaries and watchdogs of one kind or another. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The public has certain statutory rights through consumer watchdogs which have helped the consumer in many ways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the watchdogs who have alerted this country to the scarcity of otters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the rules are known to the public, many of them will know what is happening in confined areas and will be good watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under this clause, we shall become state sniffer dogs, as distinct from watchdogs fulfilling our normal and proper function as auditors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would be expecting senior parliamentarians to be effective watchdogs of the security service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The package holiday business does not lack watchdogs set up by either the industry or governmental decisions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, the responsibilities of those who act as public watchdogs are spread thinly across an increasing number of organisations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are in fact the only people equipped to act as watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of our being the watchdogs of the public purse we have become the most extravagant spenders of all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 More important, the watchdogs of the public cannot tell. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In any case, newspapers and the other media have a most important role to fulfil as the watchdogs of the nation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As health watchdogs have warned, serious health problems can arise if people stop seeing a dentist altogether. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Ah, but there are watchdogs, some of us may feel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The public have statutory rights to consumer watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason is that the consumer committees have too often been toothless watchdogs, unable to command the information which new clause 27 addresses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There may be more of us watchdogs after the elections. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English On the subject of watchdogs, it is true that we work with private sector organisations. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The problem was that, under self-regulation, the watchdogs were those who were selling personal pensions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, we are no longer the watchdogs that once we were and that the public trust us to be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The watchdogs have barked, or prepared to bark, but meanwhile the monopolies have gone marching on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the watchdogs, to protect the public and to enforce the law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We assume that local authorities will be the local watchdogs on standards at local activity centres. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no such watchdogs available on the trade union side. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We feel that, if they are to be useful and are to be the watchdogs, they must be completely independent of the water authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the public service there are other watchdogs—at least there are other persons not described by that name—which act in that capacity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The police are the watchdogs we have set over us to see that we do not break the law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, we are policy shapers—we are the great forum of the nation—and, secondly, we are watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, such consumer watchdogs are hardly geared to the examination of precious metals, an extremely exacting art developed over centuries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should be the watchdogs in that respect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In ancient times they had watchdogs, working dogs, dogs for defence and dogs for hunting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that journalists who are supposed to be the watchdogs have nothing very much to bite on and, therefore, imagine all sorts of things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The problem which faces it is to see that journalists get better sources, so that newspapers can once again become the watchdogs of the nation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our task is to ensure that we can still carry out our duty as watchdogs on the economy, defence and all other important issues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our task is to be watchdogs of how that money is spent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have inevitably heard a certain amount about watchdogs, and various analogies have naturally been drawn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think the answer lies in censorship or in the creation of more watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have independent watchdogs for health, for electricity, for gas and for water. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I may be told that the community councils are there as the watchdogs of the customer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were set up as the watchdogs, as it were, of the user interests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a time when we were watchdogs of the public's money, and the public are our constituents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I entirely agree that the water authorities—the watchdogs—are far too closely identified with the burglars. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Newspapers have made themselves indispensable and one of the duties they see themselves delivering on our behalf is that of environmental watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My final point concerns watchdogs; namely, a broadcasting council. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are the people's watchdogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the essential watchdogs of amenities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, the right to free speech is paramount, especially when newspapers act as watchdogs in reporting news rather than simply entertaining on matters of public interest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everybody will be acting as watchdogs to see that we do get the right calibre of people as traffic wardens, who will certainly relieve the police and our local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the watchdogs of the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other collaborative activities individuals take turns in sitting vigilantly alert while others feed, thereby functioning as watchdogs or guards. We, the philosopher watchdogs, have mostly failed to bark. Empirical evidence showed that the ministers' presence as chairmen of these committees seriously limited the committees' role as watchdogs. The underlying reason for establishing these committees was so that they could work as watchdog bodies for the ministries. As participants, individuals must have more than token or watchdog roles on guideline committees. Nonetheless, media watchdog groups could encourage magazine editors to cite the sources of their health-related articles, including medical journal citations. Now everything depends on the effectiveness of the government as a watchdog. A watchdog regime works best when it employs numerous watchdogs. Even the labor union, the company union, works in this context, although it sometimes played the role of inside watchdog. In addition, it carries mail that is sealed against inspection and acts as a watchdog over fraudulent use of the mails. The requirement for autonomous operation imposes the need for watchdog timers and recovery procedures. English might have benefited over the centuries from having its own orthographical watchdog. There is a need for some, not so much a watchdog as a coordinator, or something to give direction to the system. Regulatory capture implies that the regulator gradually comes to identify with the interests of the firm is regulates, eventually becoming its champion, not its watchdog. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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