Sentence examples for checks aimed at from inspiring English sources

Since September, eight countries have reintroduced border checks, aimed at preventing large numbers of refugees and migrants entering.

The constitutional dispensation inherited from Tito entailed a complex system of checks aimed at preserving the country's always delicate ethnic balance and at keeping Yugoslavia's most numerous grouping, the Serbs, from dominating the federation.

But members of Congress and a number of agency officials say the bottleneck is at the White House, where nominees remain unannounced as the legal and personnel offices conduct time-consuming background checks aimed at discovering the slightest potential problem that could hold up a confirmation.

She added that her bank has a stringent process of checks aimed at limiting its vulnerability to dishonest participants.

Our results do not support the use of general health checks aimed at a general adult population outside the context of randomised trials.

9 The first robustness check aims at taking into account that the number of days between the first and second visit to the health care center is not the same for all observations.

The checks are aimed at letting customers avoid paying upfront for their tax preparation.

The check is aimed at measuring whether pupils have a good understanding of phonics - the sounds of letters and groups of letters - which the government says is the key to helping children to read.

Wal-Mart and RadioShack are offering to cash checks, a program aimed at customers who have no bank accounts.

In the United Kingdom, the NHS health checks programme is aimed at screening all individuals between 40 to 74 years of age for vascular and metabolic disease risk and then treating high risk individuals accordingly [ 3].

In June 2010, he was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for orchestrating a check-kiting scheme aimed at Wells Fargo Bank, though he served only about a year, court records show.