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In 20 years, Brady background checks at federally licensed firearm dealers have blocked 2.4 million gun sales to those people that we all agree shouldn't have guns.
That's the extent to which we agree about background checks.
And yes, Kim Kardashian has made an unsolicited passionate appeal to her 35 million Twitter followers for expanded background checks.
They don't go all the way, but they are going to save lives, because they expand Brady background checks to thousands of gun sales that didn't have them previously.
And in state-controlled prostitution, commercial sex can only happen in certain legally-designated areas or venues, and sex workers are made to comply with special restrictions, like registration and forced health checks.
When a supervisor comes to visit us, these are exactly the things that he checks.
When a supervisor comes to visit the classroom, he or she not only checks the construction of the toilet but also what is the quality of teaching.
And you go through the process like you do every time you call your bank, of giving them your name and your account number, going through the security checks to verify you are who you said you are.
Most of us may not know this, but in many large-scale wire transfers, it requires two people to sign off on the wire transfer, so the operator then asks you to get the second person on the line, and goes through the same set of verifications and checks.
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?
The average person checks email 74 times a day, and switches tasks on their computer 566 times a day.
And indeed, the man checks the checklist eventually, and he found my name, and he let us inside.
But what's happened is our technology has removed the checks and balances on our population growth.
She broke her water in the triage area, so they brought her directly to the labor and delivery room, and then they ran through their checks.
She then went straight over to do her next set of checks.
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.
On paper, of course, I was better: I didn't have leukemia, my blood counts were back to normal, and the disability checks soon stopped coming.
I don't think they're bad people, but I think the role of government and the role of us as consumers and people who elect our officials is to ensure that there are some checks here.
Police recruits had passed lengthy background checks, they had passed medical and psychological exams, they had quit their jobs.
Basically, in every round you get a randomly assigned letter on each Siftable, and as you try to make words it checks against a dictionary.
Well, a judge said yes, but only if the dad leaves the house and checks into a motel.
You could have Hedge ask every question about every person, and then choose the person with only checks and blanks.
To counteract this risk, coronaviruses have a unique feature: an enzyme that checks for replication errors and corrects mistakes.
Gun sales, according to the FBI, who does background checks, are up almost 25 percent since January.
And the bus is taken with a cargo-scanning X-ray, which is the sort of machine you have on borders, which checks for contraband and drugs and bombs and things.
So for example, we didn't have ways to have credit checks, few banks to collect bills, etc.
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