countercheck

Example Sentences

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Comptroller General McCarl has not had authority to check and countercheck the expenditure of Federal emergency appropriations, nor has Budget Director Douglas had power to plan their spending.

From Time Magazine Archive

To have his keys to count and countercheck.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

This countercheck I wasn't aware of, Sittah; My queen must fall the sacrifice.

From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Taylor, William

But while this game of check and countercheck was being played, the North was becoming more and more impatient and events were rapidly bringing another player to the fore.

From On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Hill, Frederick Trevor

Ne'er shall she come within our palace gate, To countercheck brave Locrine in his love.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)