under the aegis of

1. Also, under the auspices of. Protected or sponsored by, as in The fund drive for the new field is under the aegis of the Rotary Club, or He was admitted to the club under the auspices of Mr. Leonard. The first term comes from Greek myth, where the aegis was the protective shield of Zeus. Auspices originally meant “observations of birds made to obtain omens.” It then came to be used for a sign or omen, and still later for a favorable influence. [Late 1700s]

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This task is left to a 170-plus member “committee” under the aegis of the IMO, and good luck to any voter in Boston, Berlin or Bangkok who wants to influence that debate.

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When the sprawling compilation album “Transa” came out last fall, Massima Bell — a musician, model and activist who helped assemble the project under the aegis of the Red Hot organization — thought of it as a crucial act of “archive-making” for one of society’s most marginalized communities.

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The French ecology ministry told us: "A task force set up by the ministry is working, under the aegis of the environment ambassador Barbara Pompili, to define a coordinated strategy at the European level for the care of orcas and dolphins, particularly those at Marineland."

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All of these piecemeal undertakings have been gathered up under the aegis of the task scam, which would cross over from pointless to exploitative when the recruiter either refused to pay me or asked me to start sending them money.

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In the United States, the question of what you can do to an animal in a laboratory or experimental environment would mostly fall under the aegis of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees established by academic institutions, each setting its own rules.

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