fox guarding the henhouse
fox in the henhouse

Effectively, we have left the fox guarding the henhouse.

Having Smithfield report on the tests "is like the fox guarding the henhouse."

The setup of the Olympic committee's current board is akin to the fox guarding the henhouse.

Before, we would've said it's business as usual - the fox guarding the henhouse."

"Plainly, the government wants only the foxes guarding the henhouse," he said in court papers.

“History has shown that intelligence agencies overseeing their own behavior is like the fox guarding the henhouse.

Democrats are scoffing, dismissing the proposals as a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.

Many public appointees, particularly recent secretaries of the Interior, behave like foxes guarding the henhouse.

Disengagement leaves the fox guarding the henhouse.

Indeed, the severest critics disparage ethics officers as foxes guarding the henhouse.

When the UN's highest human rights body becomes a case of the foxes guarding the henhouse, the world's victims suffer.

"During this investigation you can't have the fox guarding the henhouse, and that means they need to willingly step down - now," LeMond said.

Iccat is just the foxes guarding the henhouse.”

"In Oklahoma, it's the fox guarding the henhouse," Ms. Giles said.

"The way it is now, you could almost look at it and ask: Is this a situation of the fox guarding the henhouse," Gordon said.

It is a cycle that often resembles the fox guarding the henhouse, with those who regulate too close to those whom they regulate.

“This case is the insider trading version of the fox guarding the henhouse,” Mr. Khuzami said.

As a spokesman for the coalition, Mr. Berman dismissed the industry's standards as a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.

"This is a textbook case of the fox guarding the henhouse," said Reprieve's executive director, Clare Algar.

"This is exactly the fox guarding the henhouse," Michael Daulton of the National Audubon Society said.

Your petition characterizes Dimon's position on the New York Fed board as the "fox guarding the henhouse."

Eric Boehlert, "Fox Guarding the Henhouse," Salon.com, November 15, 2000.

And since Congress itself will write the rules carrying out the legislation's provisions and will monitor enforcement of them, the workers see a fox guarding the henhouse.

The McDade family's attorney Caree Harper criticized the move, saying that would be like having the "foxes guarding the henhouse."

And with the Justice Department now assuming control of gun enforcement from the Treasury Department, he said, "It's the fox guarding the henhouse."

You said that I had a fox in the henhouse.

You can put the fox in the henhouse and say that it's only there to look at the chickens.

I feel like I'm calling to the fox in the henhouse and asking him what's going on."

"It's like putting the fox in the henhouse and taking his word that he's not going to eat the chickens."

The fox in the henhouse is an accurate image.

Allocation must be done fairly by the Minister; anything else puts the fox in the henhouse.

You do enjoy putting the fox in the henhouse!"

When you let the fox in the henhouse, do you really expect him to eat only a few chickens?

There we sat at the table like two foxes in the henhouse gnawing the bones.

"But I felt that allowing Microsoft on the board was letting the fox in the henhouse."

Talk about the fox in the henhouse.

They're all flappin' around in the tower up there like there's a fox in the henhouse.

Its first chair was Joseph P. Kennedy - the fox in the henhouse.

“Do you let the fox in the henhouse?”

You've got a fox in the henhouse, ]3oh.

"Fox in the Henhouse" original painting by Rich Thistle.

Fox in the henhouse, oh, my, oh!

Fox in the Henhouse" - Marla & Jonas "

It was, the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan said on Monday, "a case of inviting and paying for foxes in the henhouse."

Saunders's book, "Foxes in the Henhouse," argues that the party would be wrong to focus on the West and ignore the South.

I'm afraid Mr. Gomble never knew that he had a ... fox in the henhouse, to use your turn of phrase.

The third song Volpi nei pollai (Foxes in the henhouse) is an ironic metaphor of infidelity.

Government alliances with industry, now common within international debates on tourism policy in the United Nations system, present the classic case of "the fox in the henhouse."

And so I soon found myself on a bench between Patience and Lacey, looking as unostentatious as a fox in the henhouse.

Jarding is the co-author of the book, "Foxes in the Henhouse" published by Simon and Schuster in 2006.