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This is why you have checks and balances.
Suddenly, we humans, a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature, have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.
I think there's also an amazing arrogance to the idea that he knows better than the framers of the Constitution in how the government should be designed and work for separation of powers and the fact that the executive and the legislative branch have to work together and they have checks and balances on each other, and then the judicial branch, which oversees the entire process.
Based on this definition, here's how I'm defining money shame: "the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed, and therefore unworthy of love and belonging, based on our bank account balances, our debts, our homes, our cars and our job titles."
When the new constitution was adopted in 1787, the structure of the infant government of the United States called for three separate branches, each with their own powers, and a system of checks and balances.
Theoretically, the U.S. government is already designed to prevent abuses of power, limiting different branches through a system of checks and balances, term limits, and free elections.
Because there are two distinct aspects of democracy: there's electoral competition, which determines how you acquire power, and there are checks and balances, which determine how you use power.
It turns out that electoral competition is the thing that's doing the damage with democracy, whereas strong checks and balances make resource booms good.
And so, what the countries of the bottom billion need is very strong checks and balances.
They got instant democracy in the 1990s: elections without checks and balances.
How can we help improve governance and introduce checks and balances?
Instead, it's a critical function, during which your body balances and regulates its vital systems, affecting respiration and regulating everything from circulation to growth and immune response.
But what's happened is our technology has removed the checks and balances on our population growth.
So we're not going to let it impact yield, we're going to always have checks and balances that says go or no go on that experiment.
But the balances redressed, our shared purposes assume an equal if not greater importance.
It does this through an elaborate and elegant system of checks and balances, stimulators and inhibitors of angiogenesis, such that, when we need a brief burst of blood vessels, the body can do this by releasing stimulators, proteins called angiogenic factors, that act as natural fertilizer, and stimulate new blood vessels to sprout.
SB: I loved your "It all balances out" chart that you had there.
Keeping balances is important.
It balances between comedy and melodrama and keeps falling on its face doing justice to neither.
The ideal of the benevolent despot, the good-intentioned all-powerful leader who brings about a utopia once freed of the checks and balances on this omnipotence, dates to classical antiquity.
Despite the film's roots in science-fiction it is ultimately a horror film that brilliantly balances splatter with psychological trauma.
She is not really an actress an she balances permanently between over-acting and preposterous under-acting.
The plot is brilliantly worked, and Preminger excellently balances several plot points; but it all comes back down to the main moral implication surrounding our main character.
Writer/director Shelli Ryan neatly balances both possibilities and keeps the audience guessing.
She balances out the melancholy tone of the film with an iridescent energy.
Every character in the film balances on a razor's edge between surreal and creepy realism.
Nancy balances her femininity with career minded sleuthing skills.
Keaton balances all three aspects of his lead character quite well.
In this film, pure of heart may not necessarily mean pure of deed, but at least evil is evil and good is good.This film bravely balances the aformentioned violence with scenes of wry humour and gentleness.
Suddenly Hope wakes up to find herself in a wooden coffin, a day later a man (Eric Colvin) lets her out but then ties a rope around her neck to a tree & balances her on a log, inside a deep wound in her stomach is a razor blade to cut through the rope & save herself from choking, Hope manages to reach inside her own body to find the blade & cut the rope.
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