This raises the need for a global system of checks and balances, for mandatory rules and constraints in our dealings with nature.

这就需要建立一个全球性的检查和制衡体系，在我们与自然打交道时制定强制性的规则和约束。

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Those checks, balances and laws provide an orderly means to change course in response to new challenges.

那些检查、平衡以及法律提供了应对新的挑战的有序手段。

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Where are the adviser's checks and balances?

顾问的制约与平衡状况怎样？

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But people of all opinions feared that the president was trying to destroy the careful system of checks and balances in the federal government.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

This seems in many ways to be quite far from the American democracy based on constitutional government, systems of checks and balances, protection of individual rights, and so on.

这似乎在很多方面,有别于美式民主,后者的根基是宪制政府，制衡体系，保障个人权利等。

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"It did not adequately put in place a set of checks and balances on risk-taking that had systemic consequences."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Without any checks and balances the cost of stanching carbon dioxide will be practically unlimited.

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Karma, a cosmic accounting system of checks and balances (the ultimate exercise, perhaps, in self-metrification).

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"I understand the risks, and I think we need checks and balances, " says Paller.

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