Sentence examples for democratic check from inspiring English sources

It's not infallible, but it is an essential democratic check.

It is doing so without any democratic check or control, and its people must stop it.

The body also serves as a democratic check on other EU institutions.

"Some democratic check against absolute judicial power is needed," he wrote on the Guardian law website.

"Today I can announce our 'People's Right to Know' plan – a democratic check on wasteful spending.

There's a democratic check on the FCC: America can vote out the president who appoints its chairman.

The whole thing makes particularly fascinating reading when you compare it to the way that Republican billionaires and bundlers are generally treated by the press: As a cynical, self-interested lot whose ruthless quest for political quid pro quos contrasts with the high-minded principle of Democratic check-writers and bundlers, who supposedly give without asking for anything in return.

Somehow America's famous apparatus of democratic checks and balances did not apply to the monetary priesthood.

The lack of sufficient democratic checks and balances in all three has undermined faith in elections and helped to create the conditions for civil unrest.

Military needs are also no excuse for weakening important democratic checks on the executive, as Mr. Uribe and some of his advisers have suggested.

But it is an extension of the authoritarian model of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who worked to weaken democratic checks and balances during his five-year tenure.