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superintend

British pronunciation/sˈuːpəɹɪntˌɛnd/
American pronunciation/sˈuːpɚɹɪntˌɛnd/
to superintend
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1The framers gave the president the power to make treaties and to superintend the executive branch and simultaneously hedged that power by requiring the advice and the consent of the Senate on treaties as well as on a high level executive appointments.
2And then you superintend all of the brief-writing and all the cases that the United States participates in-- and that's a lot of cases.
3Umluaf and Schuppanzigh made every effort to prove the impossibility of a fraud of any sort, pointing out that every piece of money had passed through the hands of the two theatre cashiers, that the figures tallied precisely, and that furthermore his nephew, on the instruction of his apothecary brother, had superintended the cashiers in defiance of all custom.
4For example, in July 1775, the act establishing Virginia's first bills of credit of the revolutionary era appointed 10 men as a committee to superintend the burning of said notes to be taxed out of existences by the ordinances of the Virginia convention.
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