Sentence examples for a check on a from inspiring English sources

In Hiram Johnson's day initiatives seemed to be needed as a check on a venal legislature.

It is about maintaining a check on a big government that has been known to abuse its powers.

Between 1995 and 2000, with a Republican Congress acting as a check on a Democratic president (and vice versa), real federal spending per head remained nearly frozen.

On Sunday, those revelations led to a check on a couple of New York residents who have lived well past 100.

McConnell has told colleagues that this prospect only strengthens the case for a Republican Senate — as a check on a liberal President.

If the Museum of the American Indian's curators had overromanticized Indian cultures, they had also put a check on a seldom-questioned ethnological romanticism that assumed those cultures to be dead and gone.

It also fails to serve as a check on an overly bubbly market.

If anything, this will make the Lords less likely to act as a check on an over-mighty Commons, and will increase the powers of Prime Minister Blair.

Not only will these questions allow patients to better understand their disease, but they also serve as a check on an overburdened hospital team.

Wilson said Rubio will also be judged favorably because much of the mainstream foreign policy establishment sees in Tillerson a sensible adult who will serve as a check on an erratic president.

He believed in monarchical sovereignty but advocated a Cortes as a check on arbitrary regal power.