Sentence examples for kept powerful from inspiring English sources

Ivy Mason, who lives next door, says she always kept powerful cars.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent appearances amid children are cited as proof that the stereotypes that have kept powerful political women from claiming their roles as mothers have receded.

He knew how to keep powerful people happy.

That helped him keep powerful protectors who eased him through the thickets of Polish bureaucracy.

That has helped keep powerful groups at the table, to prevent their allying against him as they did against Mr. Clinton.

What it needs is a nasty, tabloid-style divorce — in this case, to keep powerful press barons and politicians from sharing the same beds.

But those assertions did not keep powerful Real Madrid from swooping in anyway and trying to determine if it could pry him away with a lavish offer.

For example, Mr. Ban was persuaded for two years in a row to keep powerful countries off a list of those whose military forces had killed and maimed children.

Some experts worried that a conviction would have a chilling effect on worried doctors and keep powerful painkillers from patients who need them.

While recently watching Spotlight, a movie recounting The Boston Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal, I was reminded of the important work that journalists do to keep powerful institutions honest.

This recent wave of cable and streaming programs posit that women and children are often systematically targeted and brutalized, and that the structures of authority and governance put into place to allegedly protect members of the public often conspire, through inaction, indifference or the use of influence, to keep powerful and connected wrongdoers from being brought to any kind of true justice.