Sample Sentences forchecks and balances (editor-reviewed)
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Thomas Jefferson spoke of a free press as being part of the U.S. system of checks and balances.checks and balances = institutional mechanisms to limit the power of any one person or group
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The Constitution's checks and balances stop any one branch from gaining too much power.checks and balances = safeguards on government power
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"Adam trusted our leadership, the checks and balances of our Constitution, and felt it was his duty to go where he was ordered to go," says Larry. (source)checks and balances = institutional mechanisms to limit the power of any one person or group
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Chapter 13 — Checks and Balances (source)
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We have a system of checks and balances and things, but when it comes down to it we don't have much check on the Court, so who'll bell the cat? (source)
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The patrols were structured so that the trucks would run out of gas if they went too far, a delicate system of checks and balances that preserved our safety and theirs—and, I now realize, the secret the Abnegation kept. (source)
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There are checks and balances; there always are, I wouldn't have it any other way. (source)checks and balances = institutional mechanisms to limit the power of any one person or group
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Number 51: Separation of Powers: Checks and Balances (source)
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But I had my family, my checks and balances. (source)checks and balances = safeguards and oversight to keep things from going off track
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But right now, she also felt the checks and balances of their stares as they watched her with Josie, waiting for her to act-well-judiciously. (source)checks and balances = institutional mechanisms to limit the power of any one person or group
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John Quincy did not comprehend, after a lifetime in the thick of it, how our complicated Federal system of checks and balances operated; nor did he realize that what he regarded as Jefferson's "machinations" was merely a facet of the latter's genius applied with success to the art and science of Government. (source)
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And beyond independence, as he consistently emphasized, was the ultimate need for a republican form of government built on a foundation of checks and balances. (source)
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They created a system of government with checks and balances so that no branch of government would become despotic. (source)
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It was known, for example, that checks and balances exist in the normal environment.† (source)
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Checks and balances.† (source)
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It was maddening for a police officer, but he admitted that this element of checks and balances would have been useful in this case.† (source)
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