Synonyms

Watch Committee

British

noun

history a local government committee composed of magistrates and representatives of the county borough council responsible for the efficiency of the local police force

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Viktoras Pektus, who has served 16 years in prisons and camps for his religious convictions, was arrested after helping to organize a Lithuanian Helsinki Watch Committee last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lukyanenko had been a founding member of an unofficial Helsinki Watch Committee, set up to monitor Soviet compliance with the 1975 declaration of human rights signed in Helsinki.

From Time Magazine Archive

Helsinki Watch Committee, about 55 Poles, many of them former Solidarity activists or supporters, have died under mysterious circumstances since martial law was imposed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally the Watch Committee decided that roguish Maurice may not sing in Cardiff.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is it to be contended that a meeting of the Watch Committee is to be summoned … a debate to be raised and a vote taken?…

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

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