Sentence examples for were kept in line from inspiring English sources

But he said that people were kept in line through "fear and a false image of patriotism," which he described as "obedience to authority".

The citizens were kept in line mainly out of fear, and as the threat of infection and war seemed to dissipate over the decades, so did the republic's control over the populace.

I remembered field trips from my own public-school education in which kids were kept in line by being yelled at by teachers if they wandered away – something that never happens in private-school setting any more.

While some soldiers and civilians enthusiastically embraced orders to fight to the death, the rest were kept in line by roving SS death squads that hanged deserters from lampposts.

In imperial Rome, Mr. Hughes reports, an estimated one person in three was a slave, and ordinary citizens were kept in line with free food and state-sponsored festivities, which included chariot races, melodramatic plays and bloody gladiatorial combat pitting man against man or man against beast.

Despite the presumed virulence of the strain--experiments with mouse lungs showed it produces 1000 times more bacteria in infected cells than do standard varieties--Valway says the number of TB cases that developed were kept in line with other typical outbreaks, which "shows that doing good contact investigations is important and preventative therapy works".

These people must be kept in line.

They are kept in line by the dominant – often domineering – figure of Lafontaine.

*** Dune is set in a far future, where warring noble houses are kept in line by a ruthless galactic emperor.

The Democrats had been kept in line with the Governor largely because of the efforts of Manhattan State Senator Manfred Ohrenstein.

War was one way the population and the food supply might be kept in line; another was "epidemics, pestilence, and plague".