countercheck

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Between these checks and counterchecks of European nations, the commerce of the United States was in peril of being swept entirely from the ocean.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by Seward, William Henry

How powerful has always been the profession in guiding the popular mind, in forming that greatest of all counterchecks to bad laws and bad administration,—public opinion!

From An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition by Sharswood, George

Hence all your specific and detailed enumerations; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks; hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated system of the colonies.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The end and the beginning vex   His reason: many things perplex,   With motions, checks, and counterchecks.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton