Sentence examples for keep from doing from inspiring English sources

The Senate did nothing on campaign finance today, except to use the issue to keep from doing almost anything else.

This standard recognized that as a result of mental illness an individual might know he or she is doing wrong but lack the ability to keep from doing it.

What is it my heart can't keep from doing that will bring me more alive?

"So I said, 'How do I keep from doing this every day for four hours?' [The makeup artist] goes, 'Don't bathe, don't drink alcohol and don't sweat.' So I didn't bathe, I didn't sweat and I didn't alcoholize.

Peer pressure is defined as pressure from peers to "do something or to keep from doing something else, no matter if you personally want to or not" [ 36].

However it is the individual's responsibility, with the proper professional help, to monitor himself/herself to keep from doing something he/she will regret.

Someone, please explain why we are kept from doing this.

The President might be kept from doing things not because they were discriminatory but because "you" — they, someone — "would regard that as discrimination".

This show of confidence dulled the disappointing force of her equally graceful but firm leave-taking: Yes, you are right, I do have a compulsion to write and am very frustrated and unhappy if I am kept from doing it..

So, with the Aug. 18 filing of the state's new request, the question is posed again: should sea lions be kept from doing what comes naturally, to preserve species facing threats from many quarters?

Johnson could have qualified as the worst, but he was kept from doing his worst by a veto-proof congress.