This empty word posterity checks none but the weak and irresolute.
In daily practice there are apart from difficulty of subsistence many checks which avail to keep increase of population within reasonable bounds.
I deemed that altogether unnecessary, but I took from the man’s waist a pouch containing some money and one or two checks for large amounts on New York houses.
The government was to exist and move by virtue of the efficacy of "checks and balances.
When I see alliances formed, as they are now being formed, by successful men of business with successful organizers of politics, I know that something has been done that checks the vitality and progress of society.
Nothing checks all the bad practices of politics like public exposure.
Check by discovery" is given when a player, by moving one of his pieces, checks with another of them.
Supposing by a series of checks White were to compel Black to abandon the pawn, he would move K - R8; Q x P and Black is stale-mate.
P-Kt8 = Q ch, and wins by the simple process of a series of checksso timed that the king may approach systematically.
I just mention this to illustrate how checks are used as currency in this country and no questions asked.
I left, wondering how easy it might be to put bogus checks through, if even the railroad company took them that easy.
I realize that, and I'm not asking any favors, but I'll try it again with the recoilchecks tightened up.
Those recoil checks didn't work as well in practice as they did in theory.
You wouldn't call the recoil checks a success, would you?
Tom glanced toward where Ned and the government man stood, and saw that they had made notes of the pressure recorded on the recoil checks directly after the guns were fired.
Once more Tom made ready to fire, this time having given the recoil checks greater resistance.
Christmas checks were very scarce in 1907, and that is the principal reason for the poverty.
An even larger sum of money has been coming in checks and drafts and the bankers say that the remittances in that form are not more than ten per cent of the usual amount.
The latter checks it off from his own records and announces the result to the lord high chancellor and to each of the Irish peers in person.
From January to June, inclusive, six monthlychecks were made out payable to Robert Floyd, for services, and three smaller checks for expenses incurred.
All checksin payment for services rendered pass through you?
No, Silvia," I answered quickly, "not for any number of blank checks or vacation trips shall you have the care and annoyance of those wild Comanches.
He paid for the cattle with checks on the bank at Crabtree, but in some instances the cattlemen rode down to Crabtree to see whether or not the checks were good before they would ship the cattle.
I shall have something to say in another chapter about the necessary checks and guarantees, in a political point of view, which must be established.
In its turn wealth is now becoming a power in three or four centuries, gradually invented and the State, and, like every other power, it is liable to abuse unless restrained by checks and guarantees.
Were it so, neither of these passions would admit of any excuses, any delay, any restraint from reason or foresight; and the only checks to the principle of population must be vice and misery.
The whole question, the gist of the argument of his early volume turned upon this, "Whether vice and misery were the only actual or possible checksto the principle of population?
The artificial helps and checks to moral conduct were set aside as spurious and unnecessary, and we came at once to the grand and simple question--"In what manner we could best contribute to the greatest possible good?
Then, he asked for Herresford's pass-book, and any checks in the old man's handwriting that were available.
Those two checks you cashed at the bank, originally for two and five dollars.
He cashed two checks for her, and saw his opportunity to alter the amounts, passing over to her the original small sums, while he kept the rest to pay his debts.
But the checks themselves bear evidence of alteration.
When I came before, he asserted most emphatically that the checks had been altered without his knowledge.
Both checks are repudiated by your father, who will only allow us to debit his account with seven dollars.
He must swear he made a mistake--that he did sign those checks for the amounts drawn from the bank.
Your mother got the checks for you: but you added to the figures in another ink.
She came to entreat an amnesty, to beg that he would not drag the miserable business of the checks into court by a dispute with the bank, and there was something horrible in his mirth.
The poor young man swindled--yes, swindled the bank, forged checksin his grandfather's name.
She had often seen him signing checksby the dozen, groaning over every one.
When the checks are made up, his shows the loss and he has to make it up.
Why, he is undersized and underweight now for his age, and every time he smokes he checks his growth.
Checks upon increased price come as certainly from substitutes as from rival production, and the ability of the people will always gauge the amount of sales.
It stimulates to highest productiveness when prices are high, and checks production slightly when prices are low.
A thousand dollars safely kept in the bank vault may thus change owners a hundred times by means of checks properly recorded.
It is undoubtedly true that fear of absolute want checks consumption of articles within our reach.
It saves the sacrifice of large credit to meet the panicky condition of small trade, and it checks the disposition to hoard money in out-of-the-way places.
At a certain hour each day, in the larger cities twice a day, each bank of the city brings to the clearing house all checks and drafts against any other banks.
Checks are orders upon these individual accounts or deposits, and by their means exchanges are made with great ease and little risk between individuals in the same neighborhood or even in distant cities or distant countries.
Since the purchasing power of any part of the world is chiefly in what it has to sell, the constant motion of checks and drafts in opposite directions will balance each other.
The remedies best worth study are really preventives, in the form of checks upon undue expansion of credits and distinct limits as to extension of time.
The customers of many banks in large cities may have their checks and drafts brought into a single system of book-keeping through a clearing house, which is simply a bank of banks.
Any system of government which checks natural impulses and hinders individual enterprise, without clear evidence that all must suffer from such freedom, is harmful.
This increasingly altruistic form of even the checks to evil is taken no account of by the pessimist.
Madame Sendel's rotundchecks had collapsed, she looked cross and jaundiced, and more snuffy than ever.
He looked worn and melancholy, his checks were hollow, his complexion pale, and his clothes hung loosely upon him.
Unless a sufficient Check is provided and clearly ascertained for every Power given, will not the Constitution and the Liberties of the Citizens for want of such Checks be finally subverted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "checks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
