Sentence examples for put to keep from inspiring English sources

In general the Staatskapelle strings, though hard put to keep pace with Mr. Barenboim's more impetuous tempos, played beautifully.

If President Mahmoud Abbas were to say, let's get back to the talks and talk about recognition, too, Mr Netanyahu would be hard put to keep stalling.

Unfolding in fast-moving chapters that are more or less chronological, the show sometimes seems hard put to keep up with Schiaparelli's roving sensibility.

Known as the government pension offset and the windfall elimination provision, they were passed, simply put, to keep government workers from double dipping into public money: the Social Security system and their government pensions.

He has played the instrument since childhood, but in these circumstances, the glamorous pianism of Yefim Bronfman can hardly be deemed mere accompaniment; in Brahms's three violin sonatas, Mr. Bronfman may be hard put to keep from stealing the show.

That is also why the bluntest tool of Obamacare opponents has been, simply put, to keep people from getting insurance, either by not having a working state insurance exchange or by opting out of Medicaid expansion, which could, right now, be covering millions more people.

First, procedures must be put in place to keep the data up-to-date.

An insufficient roof was put in place to keep the rain off in 1966.

Even with that buildup, the United States will be hard-put to keep the South China Sea open by itself.

So a director, a conductor, was put there, to keep things in order".

They were put here to keep us safe".