Sentences with phrase «as check on»

The objection procedure operates within the scheme of the NTA as a check on Government parties that apply the expedited procedure inappropriately.

However, as a check on quality control, we also examined whether several methodological characteristics (sample size, number of items in delinquency and parenting questionnaires, reliability of the parenting questionnaire, publication status, and journal impact factor), moderated the link between parenting and delinquency.

As a check on our own measure of bullying, we performed the same analysis using the short - form Behavior Problems Index, which includes a validated antisocial score for each child.31 (We revised the Antisocial scale by subtracting the values of the answers to the bullying question, which would otherwise contribute to the Antisocial scale.)

And, if you decide to spring for a $ 49 GE ConnectPlus Wi - Fi module, you can connect your GTW685BSLWS to the GE Laundry app, as well as check on the status of your clothes with your Amazon Alexa and Google Home speakers.

Thus the President has Pardon ability as his check on the Judicial Branch of the Government, where Congress has their check in the Advise and Consent (Senate) and Spending Power (House of...

As with many other matters, this will not work as a competing duty, but will serve as a check on lawyers» important duty to represent their own clients» interests in a forthright and loyal way.»

Yet the victim's (or any citizen's) right to bring criminal charges can serve as a check on the public prosecutor's inaction, and many modern legal systems provide for this possibility.

A recent string of well ‑ deserved thrashings in court have demonstrated that the Supreme Court is truly an independent, non ‑ partisan body, able to act as a check on the Harper government's actions.

The Court has taken too rosy a view of trial - court sentencing discretion, undervaluing appellate review as a check on policy and ideological variations.

Prosecutorial discretion as a check on lawful but unjust government excercise of power (a la Spitzer)

Prior to the passage of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Canadian constitution served primarily as a check on governmental power to the extent that the governmental actor acted outside of its constitutionally - allocated authority.

It is their task to ensure that they read the diary to ensure that they remind themselves of all dates in it, but it can do no harm if they are assisted by someone such as a secretary who operates as a check on them.

Judicial independence allows the courts to serve as a check on the political branches, when necessary, to protect individual rights.

Although the FISC has only recently become the target of criticism, it was originally created in 1978 to act as a check on the power of the executive.

In the digital era, as more & more of our information is handed over to corporations in order to participate in the necessities of life, I worry that these corporations, and not judges, will serve as the check on abuse of police power.

This significant procedural right is likely to play an important role in acting as a check on abusive access requests.

Ensuring that this work is available to journalists, educators, healthcare providers, Wikipedia editors, and interested readers everywhere will serve as another check on the growing web of misinformation and disinformation that is increasingly undermining democratic life.

Through concerted effort, the world's governments exterminated a virus that for millennia had played an important role in global ecology, serving as a check on human numbers.

We can not a priori define accurately the error in our sea - level estimates, but we can compare with geological data in specific cases as a check on reasonableness.

Since they then go on to describe the miracles worked by the fantasy anomaly (that is not the one the code does) I'm not going to bother commenting on those bits... This anomaly turns out to be well correlated across long distances — which serves as a check on nearby stations and as a way to credibly fill in data poor regions.

This anomaly turns out to be well correlated across long distances — which serves as a check on nearby stations and as a way to credibly fill in data poor regions.

I initially had the impression that he was saying that Harry was not included in the AWS reconstruction and now from his rather imprecise language it seems he is saying that the IR reconstruction was the important reconstruction (for the papers conclusions) and therefore errors in the AWS are not important because it was only used as a check on the IR reconstruction.

Holdren argued the scientific peer - review process already acts as a check on bad science, further arguing a red team exercise is a «right - wing» plot against climate science.

For peer review to function as a check on the science and guarntee of integrity the following must be followed.

If the academy can not check itself, its population have no business acting as a check on society, and on power in particular.

In it they extend the idea mentioned above of using wind shear as a check on the temperature trends and come up with a another new estimate of the changes.

Also, Sherwood et all «avoid using the satellite data in the process, so that this can serve as a check on the final product».

The CUAA also advocates the creation of «the Associates of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art» as prescribed in the charter of 1859, to promote the work of the school within the broader community and to act as a check on the Board of Trustees.

Egan - Jones does that, though many of the major raters have similar models, that they watch as a check on their fundamental reasoning.

As a check on the system, the federal government is requiring that students take the state tests in some grades.

This practice serves as a check on the equitability of hiring and placement policies.

Even if the additional measures do not factor officially into evaluations, they can be compared with FFL scores as a check on whether supervisors are being too lenient in assigning ratings in the FFL.

As a check on the results using the ever - offer instrument, Table 5 reports a similar set of results using initial offer.

25 Nevertheless, as a check on the main findings, we discarded the most imbalanced cohorts to construct a sample of charter middle school and pilot high school applicants with close - to - balanced attrition.

He is reported as saying that he acted only because «he believes they [his findings] should serve as a check on a policy of mass dismissals of teachers as a way to improve districts.

If you want to place a towel bar 9 3/4 inches in the center of a door that is 27 1/2 inches wide, you will need to place the bar about 9 inches from each edge; this estimate can be used as a check on the exact computation.

As a check on the WASB data, we examined data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on districts» fringe benefit costs for teachers.

In our current climate, with journalism under attack by the President, the movie is a necessary reminder of how vital the press is as a check on government abuse.

Just outside your room is a desk area where you can pick up new missions or quests, as well as check on the status of quests and complete them, too.

The first step in treatment is careful evaluation that may include lab work to diagnose the thyroid levels in your body, an assessment of your immune system and how well it's functioning, as well as a check on your nutritional status.

In it they extend the idea mentioned above of using wind shear as a check on the temperature trends and come up with a another new estimate of the changes.

The Westminster system is based on the principle that the elected parliament should act as a check on the executive.

The gene encodes a protein called PD - 1 that normally acts as a check on the cell's capacity to launch an immune response, to prevent it from attacking healthy cells.

At the same time they see DiNapoli as standing mostly alone as a check on Cuomo's economic development spending given the Legislature has been relatively absent.

The accomplishments: promoting more transparency in government, including the audit of his own office; reforming county banking by consolidating the county's banking business and other measures; and serving as a check on the county executive's administration and politicians «screwing up» county growth opportunities.

He also said the Senate has always acted as a check on the liberal Assembly controlled by downstate Democrats.

In some ways, the local council member serves as a check on the power of citywide entities like the mayor's office and the City Planning Commission, which consider land use proposals as they move through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure before reaching the Council stage.

Buhrmaster was referring to the fact that the 46th Senate District was created in the state's recent redistricting — a 63rd seat that was widely seen as an effort by Republicans to keep their upstate - anchored majority as a check on the Assembly, which is dominated by downstate Democrats.

I agree on the higher age limit (neccessary to ensure people with a decent amount of life experience of some sort get elected to a chamber that is supposed to be composed of experts), but is 100 people really enough to act as a check on 650 people in the Commons and a government of 100 + ministers?

In recent sessions, Cuomo has managed to have it both ways, more progressive than the Senate which he clandestinely encourages as a check on the power of the Democrats in the Assembly.