Sentence examples for exercise a check from inspiring English sources

It is they who interpret the portents and thus exercise a check on the policies of the ruler.

It is unique among the powers of the executive because neither of the other branches can exercise a check on it.

On that point, it was unsettling that no oversight of any kind -- whether a court or board----had been allowed, until last week's speech, to exercise a check on your drone program.

In response to claims that a strong opposition was needed to exercise a check on his certain-to-be-re-elected government, he restated his view of government as "the administration of business" by saying "an opposition is a thing that is no more needed in the public business of this Province ... than in the management of the affairs of any of our large corporations".

At the end of the interview that is, after the trade-off exercise, anticipated regret exercise and a check for consistency and understanding that we will describe subsequently the RA will show patients in each group the version they have not yet seen and ask about their preferred format.

Economic downturns exercise a powerful check on regulatory overreach.

Thank goodness for people like Murtha and Warner who are still willing to exercise a little check and balance — as Warner has reminded us lately, they are their own branch of government.

Participants gave informed consent and, at the conclusion of the exercise, were given a check for $75 as compensation for their participation.

Ms. Mitchell suggested that as an exercise, Ms. Saalfield write a check for $27,000 that Ms. Mitchell would hold and return whenever she wanted, Ms. Saalfield said.

This experimental exercise was undertaken as a check at the conclusion of the design, having already defined the optimised deck section and measured its aerodynamic characteristics through 1: 87 and 1: 30 section model tests.

In most countries this power is exercised primarily to provide a check on the executive branch of government.