Assertion: bank | /r/CapableOf | refuse to clear check
Facets:
value: from certain other banks
type: OTHER
value: during times of economic uncertainty
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Because some banks refused to clear checks from certain other banks during times of economic uncertainty, a check-clearing system was created in the Federal Reserve System.
text: During that episode, payments were disrupted throughout the country because many banks and clearinghouses refused to clear checks drawn on certain other banks, a practice that contributed to the failure of otherwise solvent banks.