Sentence examples for it was kept in check from inspiring English sources

It was kept in check by some of its crucial components, like rents, which rose moderately, and automobiles, which did not rise at all.

The US was such a power but for 50 years it was kept in check to some extent.

But it was kept in check by a power [USSR] which most people in the Western world didn't like on good grounds.

One of the main areas of regional cooperation is the Foot and Mouth Disease Project under which researchers around the region gather information on the disease, its economic impact and how it is kept in check in the member states.

Buddleia can look great in a garden, so long as it's kept in check.

Humour goes a very long way to sweetening what could have been a giant pill of social history in Pride, but it's kept in check by the spectres of poverty, homophobia, Aids and, of course, the miners' defeat.

They also seem to accept, with a certain robustness, that gambling sports will always be prone to a bit of dodgy dealing, and as long as it is kept in check then they can live with it.

But the rewards for joining mainstream politics look less tempting than before.Abdelilah Benkirane, leader of Morocco's other big Islamist group, the Justice and Development Party, the largest opposition force in parliament, accepts that his movement's transition from secrecy to full integration has come at a price; it is kept in check by electoral shenanigans and other means.

Cohen proposes that autoimmunity is selected for by evolution, that it is kept in check by regulatory networks, and that it comes into effect to fight tumors and microbial antigens that have self-like receptors [ 32]. (6) Memory module: memory and self-learning are keys of body protection.

The disorder was kept in check through diet and drugs.

Iran was kept in check by the Saddam regime.