The founding fathers established safeguards against all the forms of concentrated power they knew about: the church, the state, the mob; but they didn't know about corporations.
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Safeguards
Synonyms for "safeguards" (157 found)
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Noun(3 words)
Verb(1 words)
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Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
They have improved safeguards and they are now better prepared than before.
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We have safeguards in place.
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But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.
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