Sentence examples for keep dead from inspiring English sources

For example, engineers may now tailor their products to keep dead bacteria around, fortifying their antimicrobial powers and keeping germs at bay.

They swiftly passed an emergency decree making it a "nuisance" to keep dead bodies on private property.

In other cases, artists defied instructions from authorities to keep dead and wounded soldiers out of their works.

It only recently occurred to me that one very fine if not exactly intentional purpose for historic preservation is to keep dead people alive.

Driven by the delays, the Crow have been fashioning a plan to present to Fish and Wildlife officials that would allow tribal members with permits to keep dead eagles found on tribal land, Ms. Holds the Enemy said.

But recent news reports suggest that many influential people, including Federal Reserve officials, bank regulators, and, possibly, members of the incoming Obama administration, have become devotees of a new kind of voodoo: the belief that by performing elaborate financial rituals we can keep dead banks walking.

For example, the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) stores "snapshots" of the Net for posterity and keeps "dead" content publicly available after it has officially disappeared.

He kept dead birds in the freezer to use as models for his painting, sitting down at his easel in the evenings while the children did their homework.

Despite its operator's lack of skill, the 650S kept dead straight under hard acceleration and negotiated hairpins without upsetting a single orange cone.

She has kept dead people in a freezer for 10 years.

I learnt what it takes to be a shomrim – someone who keeps dead people company in the days before their funeral.