How to Use checks and balances in a Sentence

checks and balances

noun

• This is not a company with rules and checks and balances.
  — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
• There is no check and balance, save, gratefully, for a judge.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 8 June 2019
• But checks and balances would almost certainly make Facebook less profitable.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2019
• Republicans are supposed to provide the checks and balances against Democrats.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• It was structured with annoying checks and balances that force compromise to achieve anything significant.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
• The system created under the treaty was designed to be temporary, until a more viable system of checks and balances could be installed.
  — Alicia Prager, Quartz, 28 June 2019
• Oversight—including systems of checks and balances and an active free press—are essential, and this is again true, both in the private and the public sector.
  — K.n.c., The Economist, 8 July 2019
• This is because of the relative strength and independence of the judicial system and a functioning system of checks and balances.
  — Yohannes Gedamu, Quartz Africa, 26 June 2019
• This is a constitutional fact derived from the checks and balances that keep local politicians’ hands out of criminal investigations.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• Western officials say systems of checks and balances in their countries allow for companies to challenge those demands, unlike in China.
  — Josh Chin, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
• Other countries are deviating from the model of liberal democracy—based on checks and balances and the rule of law—which the EU was supposed to help promote.
  — Marcus Walker, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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 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 there are checks and balances between power cliques within the state.
  — Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• The auditor general provides checks and balances on state spending, and analyzes whether departments are hitting their goals.
  — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
• Each of the three branches of government, which should ideally provide checks and balances, sometimes appears to outmaneuver one another in a rock-paper-scissors dynamic.
  — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024