Sentence examples for been a check on from inspiring English sources
"Education is the one universal system that could have been a check on these kids".
The British may be awkward, but they have been a check on French ambitions to turn Europe towards dirigisme and protection.
Goldstein doesn't get into this so much, but the structure of the Supreme Court's decision should have been a check on this reporting mistake.
The M.T.A.'s board should have been a check on City Hall's appetites, Mr. Ravitch said, but instead lined up behind the plan (which was ultimately killed in Albany).
The Republicans removed an Iraqi regime and disbanded an Iraqi army that had been a check on Iran.
From my experience I would have thought that the women in the church, who have always been on the front lines, would have been a check on this.
Yet, there is a check on the table.
"The leverage ratio is a check on that".
David is a check on Eliot's impulses".
But senators were supposed to be a check on popular rowdiness and factionalism.
Should there be a check on the power from Congress, the court system or other institutions?
