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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

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

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Shcharansky, whose English is excellent, acted as an unofficial public relations man for his fellow Jewish activists, as well as for members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee, which he had helped found.

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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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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.

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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