Sentence examples for will keep alight from inspiring English sources
I hope those very brave, very few people around the table in Beijing on 10 May, Xu Youyu among them, will bring it about that these prognostications are wrong; that they will keep alight the torch of democratic liberty lit in Tiananmen Square, and that its light will eventually banish the thick dark clouds that roll perpetually out of Zhong Nan Hai.
The situation can be turned around – but the flickering lamps will be kept alight only by a clear-sighted, well-informed and united international strategy.
LIKE a candle in a howling gale, optimism about North Korea is hard to keep alight.
His preservation of that cast of mind happened to keep alight a slow-burning fuse for Abstract Expressionism, which reoriented modern painting to dramas of personal emotion.
Women have had to resort to alternative fuels, such as dung and dry leaves, which require constant tending to keep alight.
Still, I will keep hope that another alights in my small patch of nature after the thaw.
Although France shows every sign of an economic boom, the feel-good factor will have to be kept alight for nine months before municipal elections test the real popularity of the government.
Insect repellents, such as dimethyl phthalate, when applied to exposed skin, will keep sand flies away for a few hours, but the use of insecticide sprays on verandas, on screens, around doors and windows, and within habitations will readily kill all adult sand flies that alight on the sprayed surfaces.
We will keep struggling".
