Sentence examples for hitherto kept from inspiring English sources

Years of rocking had allowed him to come out as the author he had hitherto kept shut in the closet.

In Syria, that might mean gradually strengthening the moderate Sunni opposition, which the US has hitherto kept on a tight leash.

He contends that revealing athletes' test scores, grades and courses, hitherto kept hidden through federal privacy statutes, can change the "closed society of college sports".

His mother, who had hitherto kept a firm hand on France and all its ministers, is dead and the country's nobles are eager to seize power.

John Smith, aka Number 4, has always been superior to boring basic humans, but has hitherto kept a low profile in case the Mogadorians find and blast him off the planet.

Mutterings that Glencore's combination of success and secrecy must mean it has something to hide are probably just sour grapes from those who have been on the wrong end of a trade with it.Even so, a firm that has hitherto kept a low profile will have to get accustomed to revealing a fair amount about its activities.

Asked about the motivation behind Wikileaks, Assange talked about the importance of revealing information that had hitherto been kept secret.

Rozanne Duncan is a councillor in South Thanet, the Kent constituency where Nigel Farage intends to stand in next year's general election and in August let slip the party leader's plans, which had hitherto been kept secret.

This a complex, driven man, whom we all recognise and admire for his achievements, revealing aspects of his life and survival that have hitherto been kept close to his chest".

The negotiations, which began over a bottle of chablis in the House of Lords, are revealed in the hitherto unpublished diaries kept by the late Keys.

Hitherto, shops had kept all their goods behind the counter: customers told the staff what they wanted, waited while their purchases were bagged up, then handed over their money.