Sentence examples for press were kept from inspiring English sources

Entrance was strictly by invitation only to local members of the Conservative association and the press were kept under close watch.

As a result, negotiators from the Press were kept in the dark until Eric Schmidt's plane landed in Paris Friday afternoon and before heading to the Elysée.

Protests against the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that appeared in the European press were kept within the walls of Spanish mosques in order to not to provoke counter-reactions.

Piqued that the name of the winner of the 1978 Booker winner was leaked long before the ceremony, the organisers in 1979 were keen to make sure the press were kept in the dark this time around.

A reporter covering Sarah Palin at a book signing on Thursday said that she and other members of the press were kept in a guarded room and prevented from talking to Palin and customers in the store.

The press was kept out of the park.

For weeks, the local press was kept on Canal Street.

News blackouts were easy to manage, because the press was kept miles away.

And the foreign press is kept out (unless they sneak in as tourists, as I did).

Last year, in Sitges, the press was kept a kilometre away, at the business end of a machine gun.

Because the press was kept at a distance, many stations ran surreal, near-silent footage of four men sipping beer, accompanied only by the soothing percussion of clicking cameras.