Auditors traditionally functioned with minimal oversight from regulators.

The officers will then create two divisions totaling 13,000 troops, with only minimal American oversight.

Such products can be sold with minimal regulatory oversight, so manufacturers often classify their tests that way to get them to market quickly.

The accountability office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the Medicaid agency provided "minimal oversight" of the program.

The division was one of the city agencies that had held it, with minimal oversight, since the mid-1970's, when the tract's previous owner defaulted on the property taxes.

A large number of camps now operate in Arizona, which has only minimal oversight.

Meanwhile, the administration handed out contracts without competitive bidding or even minimal oversight.

Some authorities - including the gigantic M.T.A. - are exempt from even the control board's minimal public oversight.

Enron also wanted minimal oversight over another trading form that could become part of its future business, multilateral platforms, where many parties traded.

In the United States, discovery is mostly performed by the litigating parties themselves, with relatively minimal judicial oversight.