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Intellectuals and members of the opposition can be kept down by his security forces; the masses, when they stir, may be harder to handle.

Pollution in general is something that we have kept down, in both your interests and that of Mother Earth.

The merits of being easy to synchronize and extract timing clock is still kept down.

Haas was afraid that if he failed his examinations again, he would be kept down next year.

If he failed in the exam again, he would be kept down next term.

eg: Costs will have to be kept down if severe public censure is to be avoided.

It is actually reflection of this view that she cruelly kept down the Movement of 1898.

Prices have been kept down by flexible labour markets, currency appreciation and great increases in productivity.

In short, Syria has been a regional nuisance but one that can rarely be ignored or kept down for long.

For decades, plentiful Chinese labor kept down costs of a range of goods bought by Americans.

China also kept down the value of its currency, giving domestic exporters a competitive edge.

Costs can ultimately not be kept down by hiring low-pay "human automations, " capable only of well defined mechanical tasks.

Poverty, death and destruction have always been their bed fellows, and you have been severely kept down.

State employers could carry on in this spirit after that, pointing out that the more pay can be kept down, the fewer the job losses.

Under apartheid blacks were deliberately kept down, given a vastly inferior education and banned from most skilled jobs.

Manufacturing prices could be kept down, too, because generic-drug makers could compete as soon as a drug was ready.

The police kept down the fire soon.

Relying on cunning and guile, were rats kept down the population of humans when they became to numerous.

A multi-pronged effort has all but eliminated the financial strain. Costs were kept down to pre-crisis levels.

If food prices are not brought down fast and then kept down, slum children will go hungry, and their future lives will be impaired.

Government price controls kept down energy costs and electric and telephone rates.

This custom comes from the time when the population of flies, which carried sickness, was kept down only by spiders.

Insiders say he has kept down potential successors, making it hard for Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, to sack him.

The peasants were kept down initially but finally they staged an uprising.

She thinks that women have been kept down by men for long enough.

Non-stop as long as the firecrackers, fire dragon dance will be kept down.

But a good idea could not be kept down.

Weight is kept down using carbon fiber components and the gearbox has been tweaked to cut shift times to 60 milliseconds.

Under apartheid, blacks were kept down.

Immigrants have kept down wages, particularly for the low-skilled, and they are probably taking jobs from them too.

Mr. Hughes kept down his voice to answer the phone.

But goalscorers can't be kept down for long.

kept down by unjust use of force or authority.

Hunting and kindred outdoor delights had kept down the fat and hardened his muscles;