Checks and balances Sentence Examples

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  • With these powers should come enormous checks and balances on their use.

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  • Bossuet and the old-fashioned divines had believed in an elaborate system of checks and balances - popes, councils, bishops, temporal sovereigns each limiting and controlling the other - just as Montesquieu and Alexander Hamilton had believed in a careful separation of the executive from the legislative power.

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  • Private collectors may sell their coins at auctions or in private transactions, but working with an individual increases the risk of fraud due to a lack of checks and balances.

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  • A corporatist globalism that wants the removal of the checks and balances of Independent Nation States.

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  • Likewise, the checks and balances that exist in the nuclear stalemate between India and Pakistan do not apply to Saddam.

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