6 sentences with “overseeing”

Monasteries and convents had to be economically self-sufficient, overseeing both agriculture and craftsmanship on their lands.

The bishops were the heads of the congregations in each city, overseeing a team of priests and deacons who interacted with the daily worshippers and led the services.

Thus, the English monarchy presided over a divided society. It was also relatively poor, with the English crown overseeing a small bureaucracy and no official standing army.

At the time, Da Vinci was sought after for his engineering skills, overseeing the construction of the naval defences of Venice and marsh drainage projects in Rome at various points.

Tsar Nicholas I was the ultimate reactionary, personally overseeing the police investigation of the Decembrist conspiracy and creating Europe's first secret police force, the Third Section.

That summer, at a staggering rate, SS specialists overseeing the Hungarian fascist police deported more than 500,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. The vast majority were murdered on arrival; in the autumn of 1944 Auschwitz was operated at its maximum capacity to kill up to 12,000 people per day.