Sentence examples for divided checks from inspiring English sources

The bartenders divided checks into fours without complaining about the seven kids who took up their tables and ordered mac and cheese instead of margaritas.

I'd cross my fingers that I-bankers at group dinners wouldn't run up our democratically divided check with rounds of port I couldn't fund.

Second, in order to keep real-time performance, we divide checking routines whether to activate the re-plan modules (with low calculation cost) and main routines of re-planning (with high calculation cost).

Tweets were divided into check-ins and tweets depending on whether the content of the tweet was a Foursquare check-in or not.

You can then pay for everything the night of the party to alleviate confusion of dividing up checks.

The framers of the U.S. Constitution believed that to safeguard individual liberty against government tyranny, government power and authority should be divided to create checks and balances.

Whether defined in terms of a system representing the will of the people, or as one of divided powers exercising checks and balances, our government claims legitimacy based on its accountability.

The Economic Journal published a paper entitled The Inefficiency of Splitting the Bill (pdf), in which the authors consider what they term the "unscrupulous diner's dilemma": "When a group of diners jointly enjoys a meal at a restaurant, often an unspoken agreement exists to divide the check equally.

I've decided that I'm now big on divided government and on checks and balances.

Certainly there was passion — the issue of gun control both united (every Democratic candidate is for better background checks) and divided the group (O'Malley scored big with successful legislation in Maryland) — but at no point did the discourse become overly personal.

Questions about GP's attitude to periodic health checks were divided into three aspects: physical health, psychosocial well-being and psychiatric symptoms.