How to Use checks and balances in a Sentence

checks and balances

noun

• There are no checks and balances on the board's tax decisions.
  — Jonathan Messinger, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• But in this vision, there is no room for checks and balances, or for dissent or protest, experts say.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• But others note the checks and balances that would remain even if SB 1046 becomes law should have kicked in.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, azcentral, 10 Mar. 2018
• The 40-year lease proposal includes assorted checks and balances.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The system is designed to be fast, but to also incorporate at least some checks and balances to curb impulsive, push-button behavior.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2018
• This absurd claim is an extension of their relentless obsession to remove checks and balances within our government.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
• It was criticized last year by state auditors as lacking fundamental checks and balances and quality control.
  — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• As investigators comb through county contracts and emails, cleveland.com took a look at how the charter government, with its checks and balances, is supposed to award contracts and purchase goods.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• To counter free radicals, our bodies manufacture antioxidants — part of the checks and balances of biology.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 3 Nov. 2017
• But the acclaim for Mr. Xi has unnerved Chinese people and foreign observers who fear hubris by a leader unrestrained by checks and balances.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• To start, businesses can build internal checks and balances, systems that encourage employees to report when harassment occurs.
  — Robert Reed, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• First and foremost, the fact that one employee alone had the power to send an emergency message to more than a million people with no additional checks and balances was a disaster waiting to happen.
  — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Jan. 2018
• At this point, the key is to be clear about your checks and balances.
  — Cate Huston, Quartz at Work, 24 Nov. 2020
• So, where are the checks and balances on the part of the Academy?
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 Sep. 2021
• That way, each can serve as a check and balance against the others.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 3 May 2018
• That was the problem — there may have been no checks and balances.
  — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• There are only the checks and balances of the creators’ own ethics, and the roar of the comment section.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2022
• At the very top of a volcano, there are supposed to be a bunch of checks and balances that hold back the heat and force.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2020
• Critics say the new system amounts to one-man rule with few checks and balances.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2018
• Part of that is like having some metrics, and checks and balances.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 9 June 2018
• This is not a company with rules and checks and balances.
  — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
• Where are the checks and balances for which the Constitution is renowned?
  — David Means, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• But Rambis said the program needs more checks and balances.
  — Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024
• Let there be a free flow of plastic waste with proper checks and balances.
  — Surendra Patawari, Fortune, 13 June 2020
• There should be a checks and balance within the state of emergency.
  — Ann Norman, cleveland, 1 May 2020
• In many countries in Africa, there are few checks and balances on the power of the military.
  — Zachariah Mushawatu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2024
• In public life, there’s going to be checks and balances, and oversight, and the role of media.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
• At the same time, the checks and balances remain in place to ensure the integrity of our election.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• There is no check and balance, save, gratefully, for a judge.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 8 June 2019
• While there are many checks and balances in place to ensure the safety of America’s election process, there are a few ways candidates could contest the results.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024