The soldiers have rarely been put in check by civilian institutions that remain chronically weak, so politicians often depend on the good graces, or otherwise, of the men who carry the guns.
To some extent, his nerves had been put in check by the brief set of lessons he and Ms. Lieberman had taken, and the dance steps they had practiced ahead of their Feb.
What's more, the machinery of the gatekeeping system has been put in check in recent years, first with laws and court decisions granting patients the right to a second opinion and then by the pressure of consumer choice.
There are certainly more refined pleasures to be had elsewhere — places where the threat of Pat Benatar on the jukebox has been put in check, places where vegetables are used for more noble purposes than to add color to a hamburger, places where there are plates, not just wicker baskets to eat out of.
Such a history lesson was told to us once again when Lil Wayne was put in check over rapping that he would quote "beat the (female genital area) up like Emmett Till".
Is there any reason to suppose that the authoritarian impulses of the federal government have been put in check, and the national security apparatus will behave more mercifully from here on out?
The idea of letting our children run free as we did in the '70s is something I often ponder -- and then I'm put in check by my wife saying, "You know, all it takes is that one incident and they could be gone forever".
According to The Management of Savagery, in this stage, security will require the elimination of spies and "deterring the hypocrites with proof and other means and forcing them to repress and conceal their hypocrisy, to hide their discouraged opinions, and to comply with those in authority, until their evil is put in check".
