Watch Committee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Summoned before Cardiff's Watch Committee, M. Chevalier's English manager tried to argue, was sternly ordered to produce a verbatim translation.
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
What I vote is, that our set form ourselves into a sort of Watch Committee to attend to any little matters of this sort.
From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol
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