Sentence examples for check expansion from inspiring English sources

Some long-standing residents are uneasy about their increasing numbers, which may check expansion.

They gave $27m, to be exact, to support senators who voted against background check expansion late last year.

Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey, who has offered his own compromise amendment, has similar goals, as his co-sponsorship of the background check expansion that failed in the Senate after Sandy Hook has not spared him from Democratic attacks.

But a big fear among many gun lovers is that any background check expansion or ban might lead to a slippery slope.

Hayek, for example, argued that "we may perhaps prevent a crisis by checking expansion in time," but "we can do nothing to get out of it before its natural end, once it has come".

(10) And so, at the end of our analysis, we arrive at results which only confirm the old truth that we may perhaps prevent a crisis by checking expansion in time, but that we can do nothing to get out of it before its natural end, once it has come.

Alfonso now allied himself with the Almoravids and devoted the rest of his life to a series of campaigns to check Almohad expansion in southern Spain.

This drafting, together with a supplementary interpretive text, is intended by Britain to check the expansion of Union powers and is confidently described by one British minister as a "Berlin Wall" to protect national sovereignty.

Low-cost carriers currently have 400 orders out for new planes, whereas the old network carriers have only 150 planes on order.Most of the expansion has come from JetBlue, Frontier and AirTran; Southwest, which accounts for nearly half the sector, has been obliged by the wider air-travel recession to check its expansion, although it is now returning to its former growth path of 10% a year.

The invaded lands could be of different use systems, such as rangeland and riverbank, to interfere with rural livelihoods activities by impeding land use system and incurring extra costs to check the expansion (Shackleton et al. 2006).

At the time, the US was enduring the Great Depression and was desperate for any boost in trade, and FDR sought to check Japanese expansion in the Far East.