India also has long-term ambitions to trade by land with Central Asia and Europe, and to check the influence of China in the neighbourhood.
In Pittsburgh in 1906, a personal registration law, sponsored by Republicans to check the influence of a crusading reformer, cut the number of registered voters in half.
For a while, especially during the Carter administration, Mr. Nader's commitment to using the legal system and the apparatus of government to check the influence of corporations brought him into alliance with the Democratic Party.
The UK is a signatory to the World Health Organisation's framework convention on tobacco control, which was established to check the influence of tobacco companies and their front organisations.
Indeed, the American push for a broader coalition also was seen as an effort to check the influence of Iran, which has openly lobbied for a Shiite-led government.
NEW DELHI — By endorsing India for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, President Obama on Monday signaled the United States' intention to create a deeper partnership of the world's two largest democracies that would expand commercial ties and check the influence of an increasingly assertive China.
Full-scale tests were carried out to check the influence of the adhesive.
Experimental validations have been performed to check the influence of the simplificative hypotheses on the residual stress and displacement fields.
To check the influence of overexpressed genes on this phenomenon, an additional strain with an overexpressed phaB gene was constructed.
Investigations were made to check the influence of process parameters on mechanical and metallurgical properties (like: tensile strength, Shore D hardness and porosity at joint).
To check the influence of the cation on ion pairing, a similar set of experiments was performed for tetraalkylamonium salts with identical anions.
