Sentence examples for served as a check from inspiring English sources

"Through that role, the county bars have served as a check against the pressures created by inadequate funding".

At crucial moments in New York's history, the City Council has served as a check against — and a loud critic of — the mayor's power.

Cox's notion that if Saddam had acquired nuclear weapons, he might have served as a check on Iran's military ambitions nicely replicates the catastrophic misjudgement of the Reagan administration during the Iran-Iraq war.

Dr. Jesse Goodman, deputy director of the agency's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said that in a typical clinical trial sponsored by a large drug company, the company served as a check on the researcher, ensuring that information about side effects was properly disclosed and that patients were given clear information about the benefits and risks.

The council's role is not clear, however, and neither it nor the parliament served as a check against the decision to sack large numbers of F-FDTL personnel in 2006.

It also would have included Japan ― with which Trump has unsuccessfully sought an agreement ― and, many trade experts said at the time, would have served as a check on China's growing dominance in the western Pacific.

"We have to serve as a check.

Journalism has a value, a purpose — to serve as a check on power".

It also fails to serve as a check on an overly bubbly market.

Even threats to do so would serve as a check on the court.

Of course, post-battlefield remorse serves as a check on our militaristic tendencies.