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care, charge, guidance, headship, oversight, regulation, stewardship, superintendence, superintendency, surveillance
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The principal of one of New York City’s top public schools, Brooklyn Technical High School, beefed up supervision of boys’ bathrooms this week after finding racist and anti-Semitic imagery inside them, emails show. — Leslie Brody, WSJ, "Racist and Anti-Semitic Imagery Scrawled in Elite New York City School’s Bathrooms," 31 Jan. 2019 To get extended supervision, Ramirez ordered him to pay $1,150 payable to the Waukesha narcotics and vice unit and $268 in court costs. — Jane Ford-stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "West Allis man get 6 years in prison for selling heroin that killed 20-year-old," 11 July 2018 Marvin Lamielli, may have failed to provide proper supervision of Page. — Staff, cleveland.com, "Comment here on cleveland.com court and crime stories for Monday, April 30, 2018," 30 Apr. 2018 It orders increased supervision of officers, enhanced civilian oversight of the department, more training in de-escalation tactics, and more transparency. — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, "First court hearing since beginning of Baltimore Police consent decree scheduled Friday morning," 13 Apr. 2018 They are also disappointed that under Randal Quarles, the Fed’s vice chairman for supervision, there haven’t been more dramatic regulatory changes, even though Mr. Quarles has worked to simplify several postcrisis rules. — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, "Nellie Liang Withdraws From Consideration for Fed Board Seat," 7 Jan. 2019 Now, after the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, September 8, and tonight’s primetime awards, Sherman-Palladino has four Emmys for her new Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — for music supervision, writing, directing, and comedy series. — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "Winners: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Netflix, and old people. Losers: Atlanta and The Handmaid’s Tale.," 18 Sep. 2018 Her experience includes supervision, leasing and building operations for commercial mid- and high-rise offices, retail properties, hospitality and medical real estate assets. — Staff Reports, Houston Chronicle, "Business Briefs for the Week of July 6-13," 7 July 2018 Immigration advocates contend that the intensive supervision — frequent appointments at ICE and ankle monitors — is intrusive and criminalizing. — NBC News, "This Obama-era pilot program kept asylum-seeking migrant families together. Trump canceled it.," 24 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'supervision.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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