The committee is now a firmly established arm of government but it has a stormy history.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers rejected the proposals, questioning Ofsted's independence and saying the watchdog resembled an "over-stretched arm of government".
"Some of them are in the executive arm of government, some of them are in the parliamentary arm of government, while some of them are even in the judiciary, " said Mr. Jonathan, the Nigerian president, after a bomb blast leveled a church in 2011.
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Teachers have accused the inspection system of being misused as an arm of the government's policy of expanding academies.
Maybe the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is an arm of the government, after all.
Why, that would be the National Health Service, an arm of the government.
The lawsuit also raises an important question: Is the FDIC an arm of the government, or something entirely different?
The Supreme Court has been an independent arm of the government since the founding of the State of Israel.
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The American people will never again be able to have the slightest confidence in the revenue-gathering arm of their government.
Its central bank will do what most central banks in the world today do--become a financing arm of the government.
Sixteen of the 41 Chinese companies on the list are owned by an arm of the government dedicated to managing state assets.
Money flows into one arm of the government the Treasury and then the Fed uses it to buy long-term securities.
The grand-daddy of Internet services is Minitel, the ubiquitous on-line data service created by France Telecom (an arm of the government) in 1978-82.
An arm of the government and the World Bank set up a program two years ago that is similar to one in Bosnia.
For one arm of the government to target its most vociferous opponents is the sort of thing that happens in dodgy banana republics and failing democracies.
The Shabiha is a group of typically hulking men who are regarded as the shadowy arm of the government and are infamous for their strong-arm tactics.
The global investment arm of the Government Pension Fund, as the oil fund is formally named, is the biggest investor in shares across Europe, so its holdings took a knock during the financial crisis.
This appropriation may not be evaded by use of a nominally private entity if the entity is in reality an arm of the government and the government is able to direct how the money is spent.
Although the Queensway syndicate has sometimes been suspected of being an arm of the Chinese government, there is little evidence of that.
One was Temasek, an arm of the Singapore government, the other Davis Selected Advisors, a New York investment management firm.
One vehicle for purveying these billions of dollars has been an arm of the Saudi government, the Muslim World League (MWL).
But stopping the revenue-gathering arm of the federal government from operating as a hopelessly politicized and aggressive entity is an economic issue.
In addition, some current and former Afghan officials say, Kabul Bank became an unofficial arm of the Karzai government, bribing parliamentarians in order to secure votes for its legislative agenda.
Among the MFIs' biggest critics is Budithi Rajsekhar, boss of the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, an arm of the state government formed in 2000 to run its own microcredit programme.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
What does it mean when half the country literally half the country understands that the revenue-gathering arm of its federal government is politically corrupt, sees them as targets, and will shoot at them if they try to raise their heads?
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
Media reports from Singapore now say that members of Thaksin's family are saying they made a mistake in a filing to Thai stock regulators prior to their sale of their entire holding in Shin Corp to Temasek Holdings , the investment arm of the Singaporean government.
In the past month, Chinese legal experts have been unusually excited by a court judgment, little noticed outside the country, whereby an arm of China's national government was successfully sued by a private firm in a Chinese court.
Donald Boyd of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public-policy research arm of the State University of New York, found that in the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s state tax revenues declined at about the same rate as the national economy.
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