The word 'keep' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it as a verb meaning to possess, maintain, or hold onto something or to store something or as a noun meaning one's holdings or possessions. Example sentence: She has been keeping the family heirloom for two generations.
"In more congested areas or particularly busy times of the day, then vehicles on key roads might be given priority in order to keep the traffic flowing".
"I know that that this means to offer the right hand of friendship to keep the left hand free to deliver the knockout blow to break Britain apart.
We're playing pretty well right now, and we want to keep the focus on the field".
Keep them coming.
Meanwhile, Karimov has sought to keep Russia at arm's length.
"There was a group of us who had dinner together on a Tuesday night [at parliament] … I was sitting beside Mr Obeid at the time and was told 'Keep away from Ms Schott – they're coming after her,' " Costa said.
Whichever view you take, multicultural and tolerant or disapproving and fearful, the awkward fact is that we have not been breeding fast enough (or young enough) to keep society functioning without outside help, let alone educating ourselves to the levels a post-industrial economy is going to need.
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