He seems to have acted as senior chaplain and confessor to the nuns as well as supervising their financial business.
A substitute chief assists the chief of his section by supervising the fire of the men near him, firing when not actively engaged in that duty.
My assignment then and now is sergeant of police, supervising patrolmen in the radio patrol division.
Supervising office, warehouse, and retail operations, participating in the merchandising and advertising.
I was supervising all of the Oak Cliff area, and since I was acting lieutenant, and I made the assignments for that day, I was at the station at 4020 West Illinois at the time.
Not a business corporation in this country could place vast sums of money in the hands of four of five men without the safeguard of some supervising body.
Why are you lying in bed until all hours of the morning, instead of supervising the girls?
In the meantime Lundell and the Baron had started work; the Baron was drawing, while the master lay on the sofa, supervising the work, in other words, smoking.
Away I trotted, and presently found the first lieutenant on the forecastle, supervising the labours of the boatswain and the carpenter, the latter of whom was just putting the finishing touches to his part of the work.
But by so doing I should have missed the opportunity of personally supervising the quality of the clothing to the extent I desired.
In this matter we owe a deep debt of gratitude above all to Professor Sophus Torup, who has always been the supervising authority in the matter of provisioning, this time as well as on the former occasions.
He was talking to "Little Mack," who was supervising some repairs to the Dewey.
England and Wales, though local supervising authorities also take cognisance of midwives' work and investigate cases of malpractice and the like.
The immediate supervision of the Women Sorters is to be met by the establishment of the Senior Sorters (who at present receive a supervising allowance of 3s.
In 1894 the duty of supervising and regulating the common lodging-houses in London, which hitherto had been performed by the Commissioner of Police, was transferred to the London County Council.
It provided for the constitution of a Central Midwives Board with power to frame rules for the registration of midwives and for regulating and supervising the practice of midwives.
The London County Council was constituted the local supervising authority for London, and under its supervision much good has already been done.
Engineer troops attached to an army are habitually employed in supervising the construction of forts or field works of a nature more permanent than the lines need by the troops in motion, and in repairing roads and making bridges.
When completed, he put in a voucher to be paid for the extra 18 inches, which the Supervising Inspector refused to certify, unless the whole depth across was 18 feet in accordance with the specifications.
With difficulty he obtained permission from the Government Inspector supervising the work to make another roadway on the opposite bank.
Whether on all boards Members of Parliament should not have a place and power, just as members of a town council form the supervising authority over the work of its departments, is a question that will bear discussion.
The teachers of the school take turns supervising these evening gatherings.
Certain of the intermediate schools are under supervising teachers, while others are directly under division superintendents.
The divisions are subdivided into districts, over each of which there is a supervising teacher who is responsible for the conduct of its work.
We might be sentenced to complete loss of professional status and spend the rest of our lives supervising robot factories.
Carefully, carefully, like an obstetrician supervising surgical robots at an unusually difficult birth, he watched the register until it rolled to rest against the notch that indicated the exactly crucial moment.
One of the most crying needs in the government of the District is a tribunal or public authority for the purpose of supervising the corporations engaged in the operation of public utilities.
I would respectfully call your attention to the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior for uniting the duties of supervising the education of freedmen with the other duties devolving upon the Commissioner of Education.
But it ought to resist every effort to weaken or break down this most beneficial system ofsupervising appropriations and expenditures.
The Supervising Architect has pronounced it unsafe and unsuited for the use to which it is put.
While a workable formula for supervising its independence is still to be achieved, both the spread of war--which might have involved this country also--and a Communist occupation have thus far been prevented.
We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them.
Indeed, your committee believes that the public interest would be subserved if the Secretaries were relieved of the harassing cares of distributing clerkships and closely supervising the mere machinery of the departments.
He was in great glee at having me with him, passed me off among his subalterns as the supervising engineer, and insisted on what he called "the gallantry" of paying for my breakfast in a roadside wine-shop.
The construction of the Monument was placed under a joint commission consisting of the President of the United States, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and the Architect of the Capitol.
Custis considered himself primarily a farmer, and spent most of each day riding or walking about the estate supervising the work being done.
One morning he was introduced to a visitor from the States who remarked that everything seemed to be running so smoothly that he supposed the work of a supervising engineer was no longer a difficult task.
When he first went to the Isthmus he was assigned as the supervising engineer in charge of harbors, the building of breakwaters, etc.
He has as his right-hand men Superintendents West and White, who split up the work between them--one in charge of the Executive Department itself, the other supervising the Statistical Department.
The point of contact is at superintendents of divisions, who exercise a supervising control.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supervising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
