Sentence examples for was kept down from inspiring English sources

The cost of renovation was kept down by ordering nothing custom made.

I was kept down a year in prep school and eventually scraped into "varsity" - no uni then - with two Ds.

During one period, he was kept down a well, in a space dug out from the side of the wall, for four or five days at a time.

But long-term environmental damage was kept down by the relatively quick evaporation of the oil, which is not as viscous as crude oil.

"Thanks to Andrei, St . Petersburgdesign is strongly developing, because it was kept down for so long," said Andrei Pecholin, a St . Petersburgdesign critic.

Analysts said the price of the Hancock stock was kept down by a generally depressed market for insurance and bank stocks, partly because of rising interest rates, which tend to reduce the profits of financial services companies.

"People are being kept down.

Under apartheid, blacks were kept down.

So how can costs be kept down?

The tanks should be kept short, so that depths and costs can be kept down.

But a good idea could not be kept down.