Sentence examples for act as a check from inspiring English sources

The group also decided that if a company did not have two people acting as chairman and chief executive to act as a check on each other, a strong lead director should be chosen.

The whole point of popular voting is to act as a check upon the powerful.

Optimally, they act as a check on impulses originating in other parts of the brain.

Big German companies' supervisory boards are supposed to act as a check on their management boards.

This could act as a check, but banks seem not to make it.

Now, however, Bristol-Myers may act as a check on what ImClone says.

The prospect of destroying the environment may act as a check to industrial profligacy.

They help act as a check on McGraw-Hill, Pierson, Thomson and other textbook makers.

The external examiner system ought in theory to act as a check against this.

They have shirked their duty to act as a check on the president and his appointees.

Employer representatives were intended to act as a check on the untrammeled discretion of the union.