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Example sentences for: watchdogs

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And the mass media, remarkably free to report on shortcomings in election administration, have been reasonably effective in their role as watchdogs.
An article forecasts that commercially available high-resolution satellites will make the world safer by enabling watchdogs to monitor troublemaking countries.
It's not that the rich kids don't party as determinedly as the poor ones, it's that the dorms are prowled by sadistic faculty watchdogs such as Mr. Funderburk (Tim Crowe), as well as by students happy to rat out their peers if it means getting into an Ivy League school.
Soon after the working group convened, the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons Inc. and two government-ethics watchdogs filed suit, arguing that the closed meetings violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 . FACA, designed to check the power and proliferation of presidential commissions, requires that the meetings of working groups appointed by the executive branch be open to the public.
But it is probably true that the quality of politics in America has suffered from the erosion of public trust in institutions that used to act, to at least some degree, as watchdogs.