The framers anticipated some of this back and forth, but they wanted ambition to check ambition, and so they also provided a means to keep the naysayers from blocking the policy of the political party that achieved majority approval at the last election.
Yet that has not checked the ambitions of producers like Mr. Bizeul, who sells a red wine from a small parcel, called La Petite Sibérie, for €200 a bottle, or $250.
In 369, in response to a petition of the Thessalians, an army under Pelopidas checked the ambitions of Alexander, tyrant of Pherae, and drove the forces of the king of Macedonia out of Thessaly.
When Franklin Roosevelt and his advisors took on the complicated task of negotiating a federal-state relationship in unemployment insurance, they never checked their ambitions in decrying the absence of a social security net.
Egypt has seen its role as checking Saudi ambition, rather than facilitating it.
Publication of the UN's assessment of the INDCs means another hurdle has been cleared on the road to an agreement in Paris, as checking the ambition and fairness of the plans was always intended to be a key step before a deal could be signed.
As the ambition of the sovereign must entrench on the luxury of individuals, so the luxury of individuals must diminish the force and check the ambition of the sovereign.
A worldview that admits uncertainty and nuance is part of the very American tradition -- beginning with the Federalist Papers -- of checking human ambition and fallibility, it is also inextricably tied to a strong foreign policy.
This tactic may have succeeded in checking the ambitions of powerful henchmen, but Egyptians complain of a growing sense of drift.
His preoccupation with the welfare of his state rather than with that of his nation is apparent in the strategy by which he tried to check Habsburg ambitions after the Seven Years' War (1756 63).
