Sentence examples for kept serious from inspiring English sources

Lygo has kept serious public service strands, such as Dispatches and Unreported World, in peak slots but he may be handicapped by the strains between the top team at C4 over the past five years.

Technically, he restored democracy in 2002, but he has rigged elections to keep serious opponents out of office.

Mr. Brady insists the candidate was a ringer, put up by the Democrats, to keep serious challengers from opposing Michael Madigan, leader of the Democratic Party, in his own district.

Having failed to prevent passage of the law, the accounting lobby is now maneuvering to keep serious reformers off the oversight board.

Broadway at 60th St .(212-721-6500) — Nov. 16-17, in the Allen Room Joe Hendersonn gave us enough displays of gloriously lyrical tenor-saxophone playing before his death, in 2001, to keep serious students of the instrument busy dissecting his work throughout the current millennium.

Like Hollywood, Lehane favours the twinning of opposites, which he often uses more for show than effect: "Serious as the grave on a normal day and now, possibly facing that grave, he couldn't keep serious".

German officials said that President José María Aznar of Spain had agreed to keep serious business off the table during the game and Mr. Schröder's absence, some of which was during a working lunch of leaders.

Alternatively, it might just be a memory problem: we have a job keeping track of who's doing what, and can only really keep serious tabs on the inner core of five.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Broadway at 60th St. (212-721-6500) — Nov. 16-17, in the Allen Room Joe Hendersonn gave us enough displays of gloriously lyrical tenor-saxophone playing before his death, in 2001, to keep serious students of the instrument busy dissecting his work throughout the current millennium.

In an interview, Ms. Milgram said the directive had helped keep serious criminals in prison, as federal immigration authorities detained those who had "murdered people, who stabbed people, who were arrested for D.W.I. or who molested kids," but who might otherwise have been released on bail, on parole or at the end of their sentences.

In announcing his findings, Mr. Thompson referred to an April memorandum, first reported in The Daily News, in which an assistant principal at Jamaica High School in Queens forbade all deans from making 911 calls, presumably in an effort to keep serious disturbances under the radar.