Sentence examples for serious check from inspiring English sources

(Doesn't everything consist of soybeans now? I'm serious, check your products; there are soybeans in them).

It is not believed, however, that any serious check had occurred, since certainly all the important points had practically been settled before M. Cambon returned to Berlin.

"It's a serious check time for our team to see how we respond," said Manning, who was 16 of 34 for 209 yards.

Ministers had previously argued that Egypt had too few judges to monitor all 40,000 polling stations at once.Egypt's courts are emerging as the only serious check to the huge power of the state.

Sol Stern, an education researcher at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative research group, said he thought that the deal was a victory for Mr. Bloomberg, and that Mr. Polakow-Suransky's appointment would not be a serious check to Ms. Black's authority.

Williams boasts that any hospital increasing its private practice by more than 5% must now satisfy its own governors that its plans would not "to any significant extent" interfere with NHS services: but convincing its own governors is hardly a serious check.

This leaves no serious checks or balances against the overweening national security state.

The world media picked it up and without any serious checking, repeated the lie.

They are bound to value the flexibility to rewrite rules at their convenience, but any parliamentarian worth their salt should want serious checks on their diktats.

But if we have to have this system for selecting our leader, then it is vital that serious checks are made.

Without serious checks and balances, the government wields organs of state as tools of political control.Georgia, in Mr de Waal's view, is entering the third phase of its post-revolutionary development.