Presidents nowadays do many things in secret, beyond effective check by Congress.

To learn if a treatment is safe and effective, first check with your child's health care team.

"If you really want an effective check and balance on city agencies, the Council has to have the resources to do it," he said.

That limits what many had seen as one of the few effective checks on official wrongdoing, reporters and editors said.

There was no effective institutional check on its powers.

The President's judicial appointments are clearly designed to ensure that the courts will not serve as an effective check on executive power.

I believe we need more effective checks for contamination.

There must be effective checks when public funds are paid to individuals.

How will it then be possible to carry out effective checks of parental authority?

Our constitution provides no effective checks and balances against this kind of zealotry.