How to Use checks and balances in a Sentence

checks and balances

noun
  • This is about checks and balances.
    — Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • That is the checks and balances of this work.
    — Liz Crawford, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Or is this a checks and balances kind of thing?
    — Weike Wang, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There's no more checks and balances.
    — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • There [are] no checks and balances.
    — Eva Andersen, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There has to be proper checks and balances.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And that there should be almost no checks and balances on it.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And that there should be almost no checks and balances on it.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And that there should be almost no checks and balances on it.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The second is to build in checks and balances from the outset.
    — Francesca Cassidy, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Our task is to rebuild and to strengthen the rule of law, the checks and balances.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • What exactly are your checks and balances?
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This is just one example of how checks and balances have been eroded on Jokowi’s watch.
    — Ben Bland, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Talk about contempt of court — not to mention our vital system of checks and balances.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • But others see the court decisions as proof of checks and balances at work, at least to some degree.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Marketing campaigns go through many checks and balances.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Do your due diligence, and put appropriate checks and balances in place.
    — Aaron Cirksena, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • A lot of money went out the door, with, frankly, very little vetting, very little checks and balances.
    — Rachel Wolf , Matt Finn , Madison Colombo, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This front office structure was created for checks and balances.
    — Mike Kaye updated January 13, Charlotte Observer, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Founders relied on a system of checks and balances to address these dangers.
    — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
  • These consistent checks and balances are what will essentially keep you healthy over time.
    — Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • House Speaker Matt Ritter said the bill would put more checks and balances in place.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Congress must reclaim its oversight role and restore proper checks and balances.
    — Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026
  • For Democrats or, for that matter, anyone who believes in checks and balances, things are starting to look up.
    — Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
  • For Democrats or, for that matter, anyone who believes in checks and balances, things are starting to look up.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • This will deepen your bench, separate duties, and strengthen your system of checks and balances.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • But there’s not the same sort of checks and balances, at least in a place like Russia, as there have been in America.
    — Fiction Non Fiction october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Perhaps more importantly, the ref has put some new checks and balances on the estate and its spending power.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • Simply put, this means that victims and witnesses are meant to trust a court system to protect them that does not have checks and balances.
    — Silvana Tabares, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • Alhambra said the union’s constitution is a system of checks and balances.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026

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