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 fundamental threat to freedom is the power to force people to do things they do not want to do. The threat is not removed by good intentions, but it is mitigated by dispersing power with a system of checks and balances.
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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)
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Chapter 13 — Checks and Balances (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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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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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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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)
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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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Number 51: Separation of Powers: Checks and Balances (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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