Sentence examples for was a check on from inspiring English sources

That authority was a check on the power of the Police Department, which, in the words of one former department official, "tends to arrogate power to itself".

Yet Rome's system of balance, Polybius thought, was a check on the cycle of decline.

Russlynn H. Ali, the assistant education secretary who heads the Office for Civil Rights, which is charged with enforcing Title IX, said the Quinnipiac case was "a check on what some were doing, either knowingly or unwittingly".

Another highlight was a check on the progress of racehorse Tea For Three, who fell in this year's Grand National, during a visit to a specialist horse hospital in Narberth, Pembrokeshire.

And there's evidence Mattis was a check on some of the president 's worst instincts, reportedly helping to block wild Trumpian ideas like assassinating Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad.

"Education is the one universal system that could have been a check on these kids".

Yet, there is a check on the table.

"The leverage ratio is a check on that".

David is a check on Eliot's impulses".

But senators were supposed to be a check on popular rowdiness and factionalism.

Should there be a check on the power from Congress, the court system or other institutions?