Sentence examples for check on power from inspiring English sources
Journalism has a value, a purpose — to serve as a check on power".
The whole idea of journalism is to serve as an independent check on power.
The mainstreaming of satire threatened its role as a democratic check on power; Sahl himself wrote jokes for Kennedy's campaign.
The arm's-length relationship between the arts and other agencies of social influence is a deliberate, democratic check on power.
The Supreme Court should uphold this critical check on power by ruling that Congress may not deprive detainees of their day in court.
Under Mr. Mubarak's authoritarian rule, the Egyptians had grown cynical about corrupt and politicized judges but still cherished their courts as the source of at least the promise of impartial justice and some check on power.
China needs serious political reforms: more democracy, rule of law, transparency, checks on power and a decentralized power structure.
Communes created elaborate systems of checks on power that aimed to prevent dominance by any single faction.
The era's anti-hierarchical critical spirit, its self-conscious checks on power have no part in Pialat's films.
They also worry that without opposition involvement, Burundi could become more of a lopsided state, with few checks on power.
"Their rule imposed no checks on power and allowed governments to ignore environmental protection laws and regulations," the Post wrote in the article.
