Sentence examples for checks and restraints from inspiring English sources

He defended the political theory and institutions of the American framers, applauding their realistic view of human nature and the importance of both virtue in political leaders and checks and restraints in their constitutional structures.

A mass, irrational longing for punishment would gather; checks and restraints on the political classes' natural tendency towards repression would be removed, and our energy to resist the agencies of the state would be eroded.

In her book, The Evangelicals, Frances Fitzgerald recounts the words of the Earl of Shaftesbury, an evangelical Tory, who in the mid-19th century noted that to deprive "'the masses' of 'the checks and restraints of religion' would be to invite Communism, anarchy, and mob rule".

The first is theocratic, at the service of absolutist rulers for whom Islam is a means of acquiring a de facto authority wrested by the force of the sword and hereditary succession, above any checks and restraints, and free of any accountability.

"The beauty of the supporters' trust model is that it acts as an important check and restraint on mismanagement.

Mainstream democrats take their cue from American republican democracy with its checks and balances and self-restraint.

Institutional restraints — the checks and balances in the Constitution — "can never fully obviate the need for certain human virtues," Christopher Nadon, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College, wrote recently for the conservative Weekly Standard.

It was also an impressive demonstration of both survival and scoring skills, as the Rangers, with clean hits, dirty checks, admirable restraint and a deadly power play, emerged from a series that included controversial concussions, several suspensions, and whopping fines.

The balances and restraints that hold us in check are delicate: they took many centuries to construct but would take only moments to smash.

I saw more order, restraint and checks and balances while overseas than I have with the police departments here in the States.

"A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people," Lincoln told his audience in the First Inaugural Address.