Sentence examples for natural checks from inspiring English sources
"The natural checks on that tendency, like needing to go to bed, are being rolled back by modafinil".
By some estimates, new construction is cutting into the Sonoran Desert at the rate of an acre an hour.The ease with which new land can be developed around Phoenix is partly due to geography: there are no mountains or big lakes to place natural checks on growth.
In other words, do human impacts on biodiversity increase the prevalence of diseases by eroding natural "checks and balances" on transmission, or do they decrease prevalence when they remove the free-living biodiversity on which disease agents depend?
One important natural check is a limit on the amount of suitable habitat for each species.
"This growing unaffordability should act as a natural check on house price growth.
Yet the prospect of a first face-to-face meeting provides a natural check on people's propensity to exaggerate.
These strictures, among others, do indeed create "a natural check and balance" against the inclusion of false or distorted transactions.
But there is a natural check on such trickery if an observant reader points out the ruse, the journal will publish a correction.
Last year for the first time more than half of American union members worked for the government.Market forces place a natural check on unionisation at private firms.
This, Mr White argues, would impose a natural check on overexpansions of credit.The resurgence of Austrian analysis is not merely a web-based phenomenon.
Had Fannie and Freddie been ordinary private companies, there would have been a natural check: companies with more debt are usually seen as riskier, and that makes shareholders and bondholders less willing to invest in them.
