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

Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

That word fell on his ear for the first time from a white man's lips, and the stupefaction of it was a countercheck to his grief.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

It was not possible more cleverly to meet every difficulty, to countercheck every contingency, than by this subtle scheme.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis