The power of the mighty industrial overlords of the country had increased with giant strides, while the methods of controlling them, or checking abuses by them, on the part of the people, through the Government, remained archaic and therefore practically impotent.

Monsignor Bracken conceded that the finance committee at St. Elizabeth's had not provided the oversight necessary to check potential abuses.

Top party leaders, according to this way of thinking, hope to use the legal system and the news media to check abuses of power at the local level, which they view as threats to their own popularity and longevity.

Desiderius Erasmus was a Christian humanist and reformer, in the sense of checking clerical abuses, honoring inner piety, considering reason as meaningful in theology as in other ways.

The French government includes various bodies that check abuses of power and independent agencies.

"Without strong institutions we can't check abuses of power, and that has been the source of all our problems."

We have no effective means of checking such abuses now.

Some authors look at democratic journalism as taking in rights to free speech, assembly, human rights, the rule of law and other mechanisms to check abuses.

In New Orleans, due to the fact that Coroner Chetta is ex-officio city physician, he has been able to bring about reforms that have helped legitimate law enforcement and have checked abuses in the field.

In the Commons last month, Michael Forsyth, a Home Office Minister, announced a review of the 1952 act, to see if new powers were needed to check abuses.