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
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
He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck.
From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
