0 with the protection or support of someone or something, especially an organization: --
Financial aid is being provided to the country under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund.
1 approval, support, and control: --
Relief volunteers worked under the auspices of the Red Cross.
2 with the protection or support of something, especially an organization: --
The negotiations are being conducted under the auspices of the WTO.
As a result, by 1900, only 600,000 homesteaders-1.55 percent of the white male adult population at that time-had obtained land under the auspices of this act.
Tribes lost much of their traditional function but gained new ones, operating under the auspices and supervision of the central government.
Previous studies have attributed persistent stool debts to the break-down of traditional institutions, chiefly rent-seeking under the auspices of indirect rule, and\or commercialization and emerging class conflict.
To a literary critic with an eye on their popular auspices, their history of revision, their diversity of style, and occasional incoherence, they do not seem to be.
Thus, while five out of six democratic governments decentralised, one democratic government centralised revenues and one of the most dramatic cases of decentralisation occurred under the auspices of authoritarian rule.
Levied almost exclusively on the minority population, the legislation, and regulations introduced under its auspices, became a central grievance leading to the civil rights movement of the late 1960s.
A process receives its access rights from the principal object under whose auspices it is run.
An agricultural economy held sway until the growth of oil exporting in the 1920s under the auspices of the multinationals (pp. 144, 158).
