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June 10, 2008

Supervision

supervision (noun) - watching over people doing a task and making sure the task is done correctly

under supervision
keep under supervision
close supervision
under close supervision
under constant supervision
the area under his supervision

careful supervision
strict supervision
constant supervision
direct supervision
parental supervision
minimal supervision

requires supervision
provide supervision
responsible for supervision

without supervision
a lack of supervision
supervision by
the nature of supervision

the quality of supervision
workers careless when not under close supervision

supervision of children
proper supervision and monitoring arrangements
carried out carefully and under constant supervision

supervision, not surveillance
work supervision
careful supervision of the work of those in his team

she must be under proper medical supervision for twenty-four hours a day
he is no longer subject to close personal supervision while out in the field
central supervision over local authorities

impose rigid supervision and control and therefore block initiative and ruin the motivation of subordinates

turned active supervision of his printing-house over to his nephew
people with experience in research supervision

monitoring such standards requires supervision
requires supervision which is both costly and frequently highly imperfect


Example sentences:

* Proper supervision and monitoring arrangements have to be made in advance.

* Supervision is needed!

* Unless carried out carefully and under constant supervision, maintenance tended to cost more than it should.

* Supervision and not surveillance is what we are asking for.

* Supervision of puppies is important because digestive disturbances such as diarrhoea are potentially more serious in younger dogs.

* People with experience of research supervision, either as giver or receiver, will be especially welcome.

* Monitoring such standards requires supervision which is both costly and frequently highly imperfect.

* Without a convincing explanation and an insistence that the checks must be done properly, many students will become careless and slap dash when they are on their own and away from close supervision.

* A significant part of the work is usually carried out without close supervision.

* The report very clearly states that the Bank of England acted improperly in the way it conducted supervision of BCCI and puts forward very powerful arguments for compensation.

* The lack of supervision was appalling.

* In the remaining two, the librarians dealt directly with departments, in one case working closely with the head of English who exercised general library supervision.

* This year Will and his team, under the supervision of Dr Jim Fowler, are fixing radio transmitters to the feathers of a number of individual birds to monitor behaviour by radio-tracking.

* Regular staff, sometimes nominally of the same grade, provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing, or doing more consistently, more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year.

* In any case, Dr Craig-Dunlop is adamant that, for the moment, she must be under proper medical supervision for twenty-four hours a day, in case her condition deteriorates rapidly.

* Nevertheless, weak candidates still get failed, which is always a bitter and embarrassing business, negating the value of several years' work, often leading to anger within a department, internal enquiries about the quality of supervision, and even threats of legal action from the disappointed candidate.

* His efforts were devoted to drawing the surrounding countryside, the village clergy, the great landowners and the peasants, and the whole area under his supervision into the religious life of his town.

* In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break.

* There was now an Assistant Medical Officer with special responsibility for this work, systematic visiting of all expectant mothers, careful supervision of the work of midwives, cooperation between the service and ancillary health services, in particular the school medical service, municipal antenatal clinics, and health advice and information.

* But the only way you should attempt abdominal exercises while you are pregnant is under strict supervision in a responsible gym.

* She was given three years' supervision and a five-year driving ban.

* Should the patient cease to accept treatment voluntarily and reject supervision, resulting in deterioration of his mental state, he or she could be recalled to hospital.

* How is a consultant physician or surgeon in a busy hospital supposed to find time for the formal educational supervision suggested, much less the pastoral aspects?

* The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship, yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used.

* His work has therefore become more varied and, because he is no longer subject to close personal supervision while out in the field, the farm worker has become more autonomous.

* On the contrary, the weight of central supervision over local authorities becomes ever stronger because of the steady decline in our economic fortunes.

* Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help (Green, 1988).

* Washing and dressing and also feeding were classified as requiring no supervision, supervision only, or help on at least one occasion.

* Behavioural theorists add that tall structures impose rigid supervision and control and therefore block initiative and ruin the motivation of subordinates.

* About this time Berthelet turned active supervision of his printing-house over to his nephew, Thomas Powell, probably by 1549 when he was granted a coat of arms.

* There are links with other departments in the University, including the Centre for Educational Sociology, Politics, Statistics, African Studies, and Social Policy and Social Work, which allows students with interests covering more than one discipline to find expertise, support and supervision.

* The reporting of manometry is performed by a research registrar who is under the supervision of a consultant gastroenterologist.

* What I have always said is the way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial, so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment, then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime.

* At the same time, there are a number of other much-debated and longstanding issues which would connect closely with the findings and interpretation of a larger programme of studies: the decentralization debate; the tension between professional development and autonomy, on the one hand, and on the other the existence of accountability and resource-rationing mechanisms; the nature of supervision and the role of the team-leader/manager.


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