Sentence examples for act as checks from inspiring English sources

In practice this means financing local nongovernmental organizations that are designed to act as checks and balances on state power.

"Science is a complicated game and there are set procedures in place that act as checks and balances".

Although all the rival parties agreed during the presidential campaign last December to enact several bills that would act as checks on the conglomerates' power, the writing of the legislation has proved contentious.

What I said was that we are using independent assessors from other institutions to act as checks and balances on the quality of an Oxford student's degree... It's a different student experience".

The House and Senate Intelligence Committees have failed in their charge to act as checks on arbitrary secret power.

I do feel that we'll need a number of systems handling reputation, maybe in different ways, to act as checks and balances.

There will always be demand for a real live person to act as check when and if our robots go rogue.

Comprehension of this mechanism is facilitated by the knowledge that the glenohumeral ligaments act as check reins to external rotation of the limb.

Some levels consist of more than one beacon; the intermediary beacons act as check points.

Juries act as structural checks on the judiciary, and other branches of government.

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.