Sentence examples for kept things quiet from inspiring English sources

Enron lobbied regulators and politicians very publicly, while Dynegy kept things quiet and discreet.

That's why I used public transportation and kept things quiet from my parents.

At the other end of the ice, goaltender Justin Eddy, a freshman from Apple Valley, Minn., has kept things quiet for Coach Rand Pecknold.

But he kept things quiet and class-appropriate by offering suits in muted dark colors, and with a minimum of pattern, and by also producing forgiving, but not jokey, full trousers that any prosperous dentist would be pleased to wear.

The anticipation over Wednesday's happenings in Washington kept things quiet on Wall Street at the opening bell.

Baltimore County Councilman Wade Kach, whose district includes Timonium, says he believes the plan's supporters kept things quiet because they feared the kind of pushback that arose in the past when legislators and industry officials floated the idea of bringing slots to the 106-acre fairgrounds.

And they wanted to keep things quiet, especially out of the Swiss media, until they figured things out.

The administration's tendency to keep things quiet is especially galling because President Obama once "promised transparency and accountability".

The plan was simple – big reform in education, keep things quiet on health.

Evidently brought in with a mandate to keep things quiet, he did that by doing little unless everyone agreed.

"In my day, we were taught to keep things quiet," he said in an interview with The Globe.