ride herd
Example Sentences
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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the United Network for Organ Sharing already ride herd on organ procurement organizations.
From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2019
After President John F. Kennedy became disenchanted with the agency’s failed operation to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1961, he assigned his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy to ride herd on the agency.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2017
Lowey promised to ride herd on the administration to help get the Republicans the information they're demanding.
From US News • Apr. 13, 2016
Marcia Gay Harden and Luis Guzmán ride herd over some first-year medical residents in the new drama "Code Black."
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2015
He had appointed his Assistant for Production, Brigadier General W. M. Garland, to ride herd on the project for him.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
