Sentence examples for to keep powerful from inspiring English sources

He knew how to keep powerful people happy.

What it needs is a nasty, tabloid-style divorce — in this case, to keep powerful press barons and politicians from sharing the same beds.

For example, Mr. Ban was persuaded for two years in a row to keep powerful countries off a list of those whose military forces had killed and maimed children.

While recently watching Spotlight, a movie recounting The Boston Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal, I was reminded of the important work that journalists do to keep powerful institutions honest.

This recent wave of cable and streaming programs posit that women and children are often systematically targeted and brutalized, and that the structures of authority and governance put into place to allegedly protect members of the public often conspire, through inaction, indifference or the use of influence, to keep powerful and connected wrongdoers from being brought to any kind of true justice.

That has helped keep powerful groups at the table, to prevent their allying against him as they did against Mr. Clinton.

That helped him keep powerful protectors who eased him through the thickets of Polish bureaucracy.

Keep powerful strides, drive with your arms then lift your head.

Priests lie to people to keep the powerful in power: "There'll be pie in the sky when you die".

She was a prop, used for exactly the same purpose as all racial stereotypes everywhere -- to keep the powerful in power, and the powerless in their place.

We need to read the story from the gospel of Matthew and remember that the baby we celebrate was nearly a victim of a genocide organized to keep the powerful in power.