Mr. Bloomberg is moving the headquarters to the historic Tweed building, behind City Hall, so that he can closely oversee the running of the system.

I have recently conjured a new sigil named Subtle Loophole that enables me to both oversee and listen closely to anyone, anywhere.

He closely oversaw his sons' education and taught them foreign languages.

I would be behindhand in my duty if I did not closely oversee so chancy a venture.

"We need to strike the right balance here between the administration's understandable need for flexibility and the Congressional need to closely oversee spending," Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said.

And they made clear that they wanted the government to closely oversee how any federal money was spent.

Crosby closely oversaw the protracted recording of the song, much to McGuinn and Hillman's consternation.

But Mr. Brown, according to the state report, "did not direct, closely oversee or monitor the police response to the disturbance."

The bishops thus set aside conservative demands that the church hierarchy closely oversee Catholic campuses and faculties, a development that many educators feared would violate principles of academic freedom.

He did not closely oversee the police response to the disturbance.