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

The countercheck was effectual, and from her position of vantage the lady fired her first shot.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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

We are, indeed, very fond of range, and if there is check, there should be countercheck; and in this view we are delighted to see these great Italians domesticated here.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret