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But to antitrust watchdogs, customer convenience is often less important than preserving a competitive landscape.

Police and prosecutors often fail to follow Home Office guidelines, said the watchdogs for the police and Crown Prosecution Service.

It may be that the SEC's flurry of subpoenas turns up something substantial. But neither of the watchdogs has produced such evidence so far.

Now a Treasury plan aims to create nimble watchdogs to head off the next novel trigger of a financial crisis.

And that makes Beijing's refusal to let the media act as effective watchdogs a global problem, too.

An important job of the board is to act as a moral watchdogs to keep the company in line.

Human rights activists and press freedom watchdogs praised Google for standing up to censorship.

Facebook is not the only internet giant to provoke the ire of data watchdogs.

Italy is deemed by international watchdogs to be one of the most heavily regulated of all rich countries.

China's media watchdogs already keep gritty programming involving crime, violence and social issues off the air.

The Hungarian government rejects this as political mischief-making and says the watchdogs do not listen.

In Leipzig, the watchdogs, tone-deaf to history, had even rehearsed plans to inter thousands of dissidents in new concentration camps.

Thus it is no surprise that, during the boom, all the supposed market watchdogs were neutered.

People looking for a watchdog - Although Siberian huskies are a large breed dog, they don't make good watchdogs.

Convincing watchdogs that mingling $116bn of assets was in no way anti-competitive was never going to be easy.

The public generally expects journalists to act as watchdogs, guarding against improper government behavior.

On Friday, in the space of a couple of hours, several parliamentary committees and other press watchdogs announced their own inquiries.

Privacy watchdogs worry that the identity numbers will be abused by a snooping state that cares little for civil liberties.

Even if America and Europe do narrow their differences, internet firms will still have to grapple with other data watchdogs.

Accountability is being weakened, public watchdogs are being undermined and party and state are becoming increasingly conflated, it says.

Perhaps they are, but some of the team's ill-considered actions have raised the hackles of privacy watchdogs and policymakers.

The world's financial watchdogs hammered out new rules last week to stop banks from causing another financial catastrophe.

Watchdogs on both sides of the ocean play down the idea that the Europeans bite more often than the Americans.

The 100-strong group of watchdogs is made up of a cross-section of society, including students, housewives and mental health specialists.

It took a new law that gave new powers to consumer watchdogs to get regulators to pay attention.

Hot pot vendors spent last week arguing to food safety watchdogs that revealing such information would destroy their business.

And while India has sometimes behaved brutally in Kashmir, civil society watchdogs are pressing for better behavior there.

Reding also warned that sites like Facebook must comply with EU laws, and promised greater powers for national privacy watchdogs.

Support: Today's managers need to be coaches, counselors, and colleagues instead of watchdogs or executioners.

The watchdogs should not be patting themselves on the back, however.

Watchdogs Roman times These friendly dogs , which were first brought from Asia, were used as watchdogs even in Roman times .

The commission's competition watchdogs, however, insisted that ING should pay a price for having been bailed out twice.

But the program has not escaped criticism from government watchdogs.

Human-rights watchdogs had pleaded with Ms Otunbayeva to postpone the vote, fearing a low turnout and violence.

While the scope of their arrangement is limited, it underscores China's growing clout as the fast-growing pup among global M&A watchdogs.

Many journalists believe they should not have to justify their role as government watchdogs and as conduits of public information.

EU watchdogs that once barked warnings seem now to have given up.

These friendly dog which were first brought from Asia, were used as watchdogs even in Roman times.

If combined with Cadbury's, it could spark concern among competition watchdogs.

Well, there are a handful of other watchdogs who would probably claim they are even less popular on Wall Street than Warren.

The watchdogs will monitor blogs and social media sites for any material that helps or encourages people to plan their own deaths.

The regulators have become toothless and inept as watchdogs.

In public health, we in the press have more often been lap dogs than watchdogs.

Today there are even fewer independent watchdogs to prevent corruption.

Because they bark little and love everyone, Huskies tend to make poor watchdogs .

In addition to keeping us company, some dogs also perform duties, such as acting as watchdogs or even guiding the blind.

These were the watchdogs or soldiers of the society.

Concern about the clout of the internet giants is growing. But antitrust watchdogs should tread carefully

The good ones are both watchdogs and supporters of the executive team;

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