The phrase "a brake for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a mechanism or action that slows down or stops something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The new policy serves as a brake for excessive spending within the organization."
Alternatives: "a check on" or "a restraint on".
Among his favorite discoveries is a corpse preserver, a brake for a sled, a new arrangement for piano keys, a hog catcher, an early machine gun, something like a coffee mill.
The local microenvironment "act[s] as a brake for gene expression," Eberwine says.
The flattened flange is optional, but follows from the fact that there are further structural options available, such as flanges or setae, substructures that could play a part in anchoring more firmly in the substrate or providing a brake for adhesion and detachment, mimicking the attachment mechanism of the dragonfly head arrestor mechanism [4].
Fear of failure or risk perception (fearfail): this binary variable takes the value 1 if the respondent's reply is yes to the question, "Fear of failure would be a brake for you if you had to launch business", and 0 if no. c.
The fibrocartilage creates a brake for these forces and prevents extensive strain of the ligament.
This hypothesis would fit well with the view of the TAM receptor system as a brake for the innate immunity [ 12].
The purpose of this paper is to present an engineering assessment of a proposal for a deployment brake for a momentum exchange tether.
The machine-gun mount appeared to borrow heavily from two non-martial implements in common local use – a satellite-dish stand and a disc brake for a motorcycle — to field a captured weapon in an useful way.
It's actually a disc brake for a motorcycle, with hand levers for applying the pads to the disc.
Making New Friends When I decided to tackle a brake job for the first time in 2005, I put out a call for help on the general forum.
Who needs an accelerator pedal -- or a brake pedal, for that matter?
