Sentence examples for to hold in check from inspiring English sources

He also questioned whether the media "did enough to hold in check" the increasingly sophisticated political machines of each party.

This lineup seems too talented to hold in check for long.

First, the failure to hold in check Labour's own drive towards the privatisation of commissioning.

Journalists just about managed to hold in check derisive smirks at the press conference launching Trimble's candidature.

It envisions new forms of community not based on a suffocating nationalist embrace supposedly designed to hold in check the avaricious intentions of America and Israel.

In the Middle East, it needs to persuade Iran to hold in check the military elements of the nuclear program that Russia has made possible.

Madison and Jefferson pushed forward the Bill of Rights to hold in-check a strong central government that might strip personal liberties from its citizens--the whole point of the Boston Tea Party and Revolution that followed, after all.

While his army was occupying northern England for Parliament in 1644, Argyll remained in Scotland to hold Montrose in check.

Just in case, to hold myself in check, I keep a couple of pairs of jeans around like loaded guns that I eye warily, knowing that at any moment I could disturb my equilibrium by trying to pull them on.

In the process of setting up this sensational victory he struck the fastest century in World Cup history – it took him only 50 balls – and then possessed the wherewithal to hold himself in check with victory in sight.

Residents say that as many as 100 men, many dressed in black, were sent to hold them in check.