Sentence examples for check upon from inspiring English sources

They decided to give you a check upon arrival.

realized, the last time he returned home that he had not paid his check upon leaving.

The whole point of popular voting is to act as a check upon the powerful.

A mirror on the opposite wall of the storage unit provides a last-minute check upon leaving the house.

The absence of this check upon government power has had a major impact on the making and operation of Australia's anti-terrorism laws.

"The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent," Adams argued in 1776, "so that it may be a check upon both".

At an appointment with a midwife, she promised to have it checked upon her return, a few weeks later.

The assailant detonated the explosives belt when he was stopped for security checks upon entering the city's main market, according to news agency Agence France-Presse.

In such a scenario, moving to Britain would become considerably harder than it is now: EU citizens would face the same kind of long queues and border checks upon entering the UK as "third party" nationals.

Autobiography, with its basically stable theory of causation, its firm checks upon reality and dream, its ordered sense of past, present, and future, was for him a necessary condition of continued survival.

Speaking of what they called Japan's prospects for an army of "undisclosed millions" twenty years from now, the announcer said, "We have checked upon the number of pregnant women as published by the Tokio press, and at present there are, oh, oh, comma, oh, oh, oh, pregnant women who are awaiting the happy event".