held in check

Have no fear, the matter is now in our control and their power bases are being held in check.

Overall, the immune system appeared to be on a hair trigger , prepared to assault gut bacteria and held in check only by T - regs.

Yet they are the sort of disasters that lie ahead if warming is not held in check.

A surge in Chinese exports is bound to boost protectionist reactions, which have been held in check thus far by the global crisis.

They were held in check by this hooded figure, with an evil skull for a face, carrying a sickle.

Big failures are held in check by becoming merely small failures at the next highest level on a hierarchy.

In recent years, bond yields have been at historical low levels, held in check by massive Asian central bank purchases.

Great peach, bourbon and berry flavors are held in check by the slight sourness created by both cranberry and lime juices.

In the North London neighborhood of Dalston, rioters were held in check Monday night -- but not by the police.

Between the two plates, stresses build up that are held in check by friction.

Malthus observed that population was held in check because not every individual would survive to reproduce.

And WAN costs are held in check because requests are typically routed to the closest server.

Constancy is therefore inconstancy held in check and confined to the same object.

It is also why expectations must be held in check for the coming season.

Electricity, diesel and gasoline prices have all been held in check.

Communists across Asia were energized by seeing the world's greatest power held in check.

The epidemic was held in check by widespread vaccination.

The group also found that in young leaves ORE1 was held in check by microRNA, a kind of small molecule that controls gene expression.

A long-standing belief is that cancer cells constantly develop and are held in check by a healthy immune system.

Overall price rises were held in check.

In this way, the powers of government are balanced, or held in check.