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Watch Committee

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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.

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Earlier in the week, the American Civil Liberties Union, in conjunction with the New York-based Americas Watch Committee, released a 287-page human rights report on El Salvador.

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Summoned before Cardiff's Watch Committee, M. Chevalier's English manager tried to argue, was sternly ordered to produce a verbatim translation.

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

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The Warrington Watch Committee, says a news item, have before them an unusual number of applications for pawnbrokers' licences.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 by Various

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