vigilance committee

Vigilance Committee is also a term used by some interest groups who monitor the actions of others.

A vigilance committee calling themselves the 101 demanded relief from the federal government.

The "vigilance committee," as the Guard was also known, cleaned up the town in 18 months.

Several members of the citizen's vigilance committee offered to support him with arms, but Virgil said no.

Pratt dropped his proposal for a "vigilance committee" at the next meeting.

In California, some residents formed vigilance committees to take control from officials whom they considered to be corrupt.

They plundered and killed until local businessmen formed a vigilance committee.

The evidence of guilt was beyond question, and a vigilance committee didn't waste any time in hanging him to the nearest tree.

However, the vigilance committee was unyielding, the two were lynched together.

It all depended on who organized the Vigilance Committee and why.