Overseers in a sentence

It appoints all branch committee members and traveling overseers, after they have been recommended by local branches, with traveling overseers supervising circuits of congregations within their jurisdictions.

And the community as a whole has every right to ask why the nominal protectors and overseers of our financial system have been asleep at the wheel.

But in a blow to Pike's idealism, Vasselheim's overseers operate as isolationists.

House overseers demand a briefing from acquisition officials on the draft regulation requiring companies doing business with the federal government to report on their greenhouse gas emissions.

Kara did not witness overseers chopping off workers' hands because the Congolese failed to meet rubber quotas.

Most of them left the profession due to poor working environments, feelings of isolation and the perception that they are the overseers of problematic students rather than educators, and the inability to receive adequate tools from school administrators.

Bringing fresh young blood onto the board of overseers can help with that,” Ackman, who has donated about $50 million to Harvard, said in an interview with Reuters late Tuesday.

Political overseers could appoint new, like-minded directors instead.

According to the Bishop, General Overseers and Senior Pastors were saddled with additional task of seeing to the wellbeing of junior pastors under them and their family members.

Structurally, the Overseers thus differ from most peer institutions’ boards of trustees—which are typically the fiduciary body, like the Corporation, and which most often have only a minority of elected members who serve alongside appointees.

A Catlins community pool has been saved thanks to "common sense" steps taken by its school overseers.

Hence the division of Freetown into Tithings and Hundreds in a grid pattern, with Tithingmen and Hundredors appointed by the Governor to act as overseers of that rudimentary but very effective ‘collective’ security apparatus.

I jus’ wish I could tell, an’ make it plain jus how good him an’ old Mistis was…De overseers was made to un’erstan’ to be ‘siderate of us…Marse had two of de slaves jus’ to be fiddlers.

Ms. Angelo added that the hard-hitting Measure B overseers are also now thinking about hiring a construction manager to assist the Project Manger.

People who really know what they are doing generally do better when they have a minimum of bureaucratic overseers weighing them down.

Wyoming Valley Levee system overseers may buy seven trailers to store Market Street Bridge flood gate components so they are ready to move if the Susquehanna River rises.

You may say that I’m a dreamer, but to me socialism and communism are a nightmare of hopeless poverty as the masses serve their overseers under threat of the whip or worse.

The decision Tuesday regarding embattled attorney Gary Prolman was the result of an appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court by the Board of Overseers of the Bar, the professional licensing and disciplinary body for Maine lawyers.

Buel, pp. 144–47 Other legislation passed during Gerry's second year included a bill broadening the membership of Harvard's Board of Overseers to diversify its religious membership, and another that liberalized religious taxes.

Even the aspect of corpses did not touch him: On a small area near the ambulance shed, inmates tortured to death by slave labor and the terror of the overseers were piling up daily.