11.   The national settlement calls for an independent oversight panel made up of marketing and public-health experts.

12.   There is no sense of independent oversight.

13.   Those reforms include requiring CEOs to personally vouch for their financial statements and the creation of an independent accounting oversight board.

14.   Yaroslavsky said the audit shows the need for greater independent oversight of budgets overseen by elected officials like Block, District Attorney Gil Garcetti and Assessor Kenneth Hahn.

15.   Proposals under discussion call for independent oversight and licensing boards to ensure that Bosnian broadcasters meet professional standards.

16.   An Office of Citizen Complaint Review will also exercise independent oversight.

17.   An independent oversight agency is supposed to collect reports of fraud and manipulation and sanction parties that violate the law, but it has little clout and authority.

18.   But he said NIH provides no independent oversight or inspection.

19.   Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Steubenville, Ohio, have avoided litigation by agreeing to settlements that require independent oversight of their departments.

20.   Regulatory authority for dealing with financial industry crises will be shared by the powerful Finance Ministry and a new independent oversight committee.