Sentence examples for reasonable check from inspiring English sources

Until the final power play they had, under the circumstances, kept things in reasonable check.

And after those, the reasonable check is delivered in a folder marked "The Damage".

Legislative Republicans have defended the new rules as a legal, reasonable check on the governor's power.

Let me argue, instead, on behalf of an institution that has kept workaholism in reasonable check for thousands of years.

This comparison (Exhibit IV) provides both a reasonable check on the projections and insights into the potential of the various business units for creating shareholder value.

Congress, controlled by Republicans, is so consumed by partisanship and enmity that it can no longer function as a reasonable check on executive power.

Already, the mulish behavior of Congressional Republicans has led to the creation of the sequester, blocked action on economic growth and climate change, prevented reasonable checks on gun purchases and threatens to blow up a hard-fought compromise on immigration.

"Ninety percent of the public, 80 percent of N.R.A. members even, say that they think we should have reasonable checks before people are allowed to buy guns," Mr. Bloomberg said.

A year later, he said, he talked a lot about employers and landlords carrying out "reasonable checks" on workers.

Gregory and Greenwald fall out over the FISA courts and whether they are proceeding with reasonable checks and balances to preserve individual freedoms or not.

He also thinks that the next time the DOJ wants to snatch up all the AP's phone records, there should be some reasonable checks, and that the AP should be notified.