The check had been mailed from Chicago, the envelope bore no return address, and the check was not signed.

Such were the incongruities of the situation that the very police assigned to check up on me were drafted into driving me to the Strasbourg Hospital while World Citizen Jean Babel waved adieu from the `` Line ''!!

Shaw could also give the flyer a pretty good idea of area visibility by a visual check of the mountains to be seen from his station.

The State cops would check from time to time ; ;

There was a check from his company, and the usual enthusiastic bulletins on new lines they always issued.

I had made a habit of calling her at night from my cottage, just to check.

* 1943 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.

After literally dragging Nora home from the party, Torvald goes to check his mail, but is interrupted by Dr. Rank, who has followed them.

They were meant to keep in check the Basques and defend the mouth of the Garonne from the Vikings when the latter appeared c. 844 in the region of Bordeaux.

# Before fading in the new track, check that the beats of two tracks match by listening to both channels together in the headphones, as the sound from the speakers can reach you with a delay.

They seek cover, where they stand still and alert, facing away from the disturbance and turning their heads from time to time to check on the situation.

The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent ; this occurs when the opponent's king is in check, and there is no legal way to remove it from attack.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

These " coupon settlements " ( which usually allow the plaintiffs to receive a small benefit such as a small check or a coupon for future services or products with the defendant company ) are a way for a defendant to forestall major liability by precluding a large number of people from litigating their claims separately, to recover reasonable compensation for the damages.

This gives a rather large number of different cases to check: there are not only 26 sporadic groups and 16 families of groups of Lie type and the alternating groups, but also many of the groups of small rank or over small fields behave differently from the general case and have to be treated separately, and the groups of Lie type of even and odd characteristic are also quite different.

The Reserve Banks will have reduced the number of full-service check processing locations from 45 in 2003 to 4 by early 2011.

Finally, Carrie visits Charles, who is recovering from the debacle, to check that he is OK and apologise for attending.

Further, Menelik had spent much of the previous four years building up a supply of modern weapons and ammunition, acquired from the French, British, and the Italians themselves, as the European colonial powers sought to keep each other's North African aspirations in check.

The film, accused of fascism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, tells the story of the U. S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a Turkish soldier ; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv.

However, a rising Wessex, and challenges from smaller kingdoms, kept Mercian power in check, and by the early 9th century the " Mercian Supremacy " was over.

His sudden appearance among the Gauls of the Po Valley, moreover, enabled him to detach those tribes from their new allegiance to the Romans before the latter could take steps to check the rebellion.

Because this water is being forced uphill through the delivery pipe farther than it is falling downhill from the source, the flow slows ; when the flow reverses, the delivery check valve closes.

The character proved to be a tremendous success with audiences and resulted in an unexpected rise in popularity of horn-rimmed glasses: Sales around the world rose as the popular Lloyd's appearance wearing glasses helped to dispel negative stereotypes of glasses wearers ; when Lloyd ultimately broke the frames and attempted to order a new pair from the manufacturer, his check was returned along with an order of twenty frames and a note from the company thanking him for his endorsement.

According to a 19th century legend, he would often go to London to pay unofficial visits to St Paul's, to check on the progress of " my greatest work ".

For accurate information to find exactly each stop check the Transport for London website as it will lead to you to all the changes going on and how to re-route.

On that occasion, he had complained of chest pains the night before, and had to be persuaded to cancel a flight to London so he could go to hospital for a check up.

Hastings, while keeping the Woodville's action at check in London, informed Richard of the proceedings and asked him to hasten to London.

In 1997 he was sent to London to check out rumours that another senior party member, Ray Burke, had received a payment from Joseph Murphy.

Norman attempted to warn London that he was in captivity by not giving the Germans the second part of his security check, which they did not know about, but was frustrated when London sent a curt reply telling him to correct the omission.

Most DLR stations and occasionally London Underground stations as at Waterloo do not have automatic barriers, so passengers must remember to check both in and out, but such a step is not needed if transferring between modes in a station.

Charleville was also one of the compulsory stop over / check points during the London to Melbourne MacRobertson Air Race in 1934.

Similarly any researcher wishing to view prints from boroughs in outer London should again check with staff on duty in the reference room.

A London landlord was ripping off prospective tenants by taking deposits and then charging a fortune to check references.

The transfer of authority over Singapore from the Indian Government to the colonial office in London is considered by most to be the most important factor that helped the British authority check the growth of secret societies.

The British Film Institute website provides definitive year of birth as 1927, based on a check of the birth and marriage certificates held at the Family Records Centre, London.

Fighting pleasure itself, he begged B'dikkat to check the records and to tell him how long he had been there.

In some jurisdictions the law also requires customers to collect the receipt and keep it at least for a short while after leaving the shop, again to check that the shop records sales, so that it cannot evade sales taxes.

Then one need only check the records in each bucket T against those in buckets T where k ranges between − m and m.

The FBI contacted Marriott on August 30, requesting that they check guest records, and on September 5, they reported that no Marriott hotels had any record of Mihdhar checking in.

Investigators ' examination of the bank records of a Miami company run by Watergate burglar Barker revealed an account controlled by him personally had deposited a check and then transferred it ( through the Federal Reserve Check Clearing System ).

The choice was highly significant because to check for validity on multiple fields ( for sometimes many millions of input records ), it could occupy valuable computer resources.

Thus it is possible that a future background check will return the incorrect criminal records.

By systematically studying the records, he was also the first to check and correct the traditional account of many episodes of France's internal history.

DVLA database records are used by commercial vehicle check companies to offer a comprehensive individual car check to prospective purchasers.

He even used his own name to pawn a stolen item, knowing that police routinely check pawn shop records for stolen merchandise.

** Reliability checks are done by verifying personal data, criminal records check, educational, and professional qualifications, data on previous employment and references.

There is also a museum, containing written records, tools, clothing and other curiosities from convict times, a Convict Gallery with displays of the various trades and work undertaken by convicts, and a research room where visitors can check up on any convict ancestors.

He also claimed that, despite his urgings to check her medical records for prior treatment, Dr. Saeed had refused to continue her regimen of the antipsychotic Haldol, the treatment that had worked for her during her first breakdown in 1999.

) In almost all cases, the suspensions of eligibility for aid are based on applicants checking a box saying that they have a drug conviction, or failing to check the box saying that they do not, rather than an actual check of criminal records.

Fans who played the vinyl record of Loveless were known to check the records for warping on first playing them.

" Because the Virginia Tech murderer, Seung-Hui Cho, had passed a background check and was thus able to buy a firearm legally despite his mental health issues -- this owing to an inconsistent sharing of records between the federal and state governments.

In the United States, private investigators, criminal research or background check companies are free to enter a county court house and search an index of criminal records by name and date of birth or have a county clerk search for records on an individual.

Knowing the police would check the body's dental records, the killer has a dentist insert dental implants to modify the victim's teeth to match his own.

After Spartan and Huxley check prison records, they determine that Cocteau set up Phoenix's rehabilitation program to turn him into an even more dangerous criminal and assassin, with the goal of eliminating Friendly, and go to the ruins to meet with Friendly and warn him.

The newspaper conducted an extensive review of Kelley's stories, sending investigators ( including reporter and former mid-level editor Mark Memmott ) to Cuba, Israel, and Serbia to check his work and sift through stacks of hotel records to determine if Kelley was where he claimed to be when filing stories.

After all of the goods have been scanned, the cashier then collects the payment ( in cash, check and / or by credit / debit card ) for the goods or services exchanged, records the amount received, makes change, and issues receipts or tickets to customers.