Sentence examples for weakening checks from inspiring English sources
If every one of these steps had required union consultation or signoff, as the old agreement provided, we would still be trying to take some of the earliest actions.It seems to me quite misleading to characterise this sort of reform as having anything at all to do with weakening checks on corporate interests.
If shadow finance has the ability to add a further twist to the turmoil, it will be in setting off defaults and bankruptcies across businesses and households, while having only a fraction of the weakened checks and balances on the banks.
Bush 43 embraced a double-barreled theory of presidential power that has weakened checks and balances and helped to undermine the "rule of law" culture on which constitutional government depends.
The weakening of checks and balances would be even more worrying if combined with a two-term presidency.
They have retreated into the state, weakening the checks and balances that secured some degree of accountability over them.
The scaling back of government oversight and the weakening of checks on speculative activity by banks began under Reagan and continued during the Clinton administration.
He purged the police and judiciary of critics and passed laws that weakened constitutional checks and balances on the executive.
On May 16th Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international watchdog, said that the Orban government's changes weaken legal checks on the government and undermine the protection of human rights.
But it is an extension of the authoritarian model of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who worked to weaken democratic checks and balances during his five-year tenure.
It has weakened the checks and balances built into Congress (the Senate, supposedly the more deliberative chamber, has not yet even got around to debating Mr Bush's "surge" in Iraq).
Military needs are also no excuse for weakening important democratic checks on the executive, as Mr. Uribe and some of his advisers have suggested.
