How to Use checks and balances in a Sentence

checks and balances

noun

• 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
• So that stuff about checks and balances is pretty much b.s.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 1 Mar. 2014
• Critics say the new system amounts to one-man rule with few checks and balances.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2018
• In 2016 there were a lot of checks and balances there that we could be protected by.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
• 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
• There are no checks and balances on the board's tax decisions.
  — Jonathan Messinger, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• 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
• The lack of checks and balances means anyone can become a target.
  — Joan Solomon, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
• 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
• There are a lot of checks and balances to make sure that cases that can’t hold up will never get to a jury.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• That also adds checks and balances because lenders want to make sure homes appraise for the value of the loan.
  — K.b. Mensah, The Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2021
• Confidence and safety in the right checks and balances.
  — Forrester, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• The United States is one of the only countries in the world that mismanages checks and balances on drug prices.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2020
• The process was supposed to run through several checks and balances.
  — New York Times, 13 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Is there a system of checks and balances that would limit his power?
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 9 Oct. 2017
• But there are checks and balances between power cliques within the state.
  — Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• It is meant as part of the system of checks and balances, to serve as an emergency backstop against unjust court proceedings.
  — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025