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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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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.

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.

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

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They had promised well at the start, but they had never been themselves since La Milo had been attacked by the Manchester Watch Committee.

From The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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