Sentence examples for stayed in check from inspiring English sources

Wear a condom.' That's why I have stayed in check so much".

The canoe rocked ominously as I sat down, but my alcohol-dulled nervous system stayed in check.

When data for 2010 are released in the fall, poverty is expected to have stayed in check because the stimulus, including aid to states and bolstered unemployment benefits, was still in effect last year.

(No. 8), that have faced a host of economic problems, are now seeing a silver lining: Housing speculation stayed in check in these areas because there was little to draw buyers in the first place.

But mostly he stayed in check with his band, cooly commanding from his drum set.

A fire that has burned 12 square miles west of Santa Barbara stayed in check, but firefighters braced for the return of afternoon and evening gusts that fanned the flames earlier in the week, threatening hundreds of homes and leading to evacuations of popular coastal campgrounds.

Analysts doubted whether the August jobless data would have much effect on the Bank of Canada, which has pledged to hold benchmark interest rates at a record low of 0.25percentt at least through June 2010 as long as inflation stays in check.

If the economic slowdown comes from more modest job creation than the nation has seen recently, the Fed will be pleased because it means that inflation stays in check.

Rather than obsessing about their size, we must debate what kind of spending and investments they are composed of, their relationships to surpluses in other parts of the economy, and how to make sure they lead to a rise in GDP (which means that debt/GDP ratios will also stay in check as a consequence).

PopMatters opined, "U2 sounds updated ... the bombast stays in check and Bono's questions sound earnest without being overzealous", though felt it "lack[s] the musical and lyrical guts of 'Pride (In the Name of Love)' or 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'".

If you leave the room and she stays in bed, check in on her after a couple of minutes.