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be kept honest
verb
Past of keep
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A patient who is inclined to lie about his diet will be kept honest by on-site cholesterol testing.
" From a criminal defense prospective," she added, "you know that despite the presumption of innocence, the laws really are stacked against any defendant, and that the government must be kept honest in the way it prepares and prosecutes cases because that's the only way a jury is going to get a full picture, as opposed to the part of the picture that the prosecution wants to be seen".
For, after all, there is no easier way to be kept honest and to recognize one's own collusion with male-biased philosophy than to have one's feminist colleagues point it out.
After wavering support from Facebook and other high-profile Internet companies, the White House threatened to veto the bill over privacy concerns, most likely related to ambiguous definitions of what constitutes a cyber "threat" and how agencies would be kept honest.
If member schools don't like that, then they can leave the NCAA, and take the major PR hit of not wanting to be kept honest.
With premiums and profits always rising, she asked, is the President right that your industry needs a new government-run public plan to be "kept honest"?
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The hand of the present is kept honest by the gaze of the future.
While eBay has its own team to hunt down fraudsters, the most important way that transactions are kept honest is by members policing themselves.
The new law further set up licensing procedures for carters to encourage competition and see that the industry is kept honest.
Webber was kept honest towards the end of the by race by Mercedes Nico Rosbergg, and behind them Lotus's Romain Grosjean gave another example of the increased maturity he has been showing in the second half of this season.
I think he's the man to do it, but he will be kept very honest by Jorge Lorenzo.
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