6 sentences with 'overseeing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overseeing and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « Monasteries and convents had to be economically self-sufficient, overseeing both agriculture and craftsmanship on their lands. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »