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Meanings of hold in check in English

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Usage of hold in check in English
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It was terrific, to hold in check a nature such as his.
Constance Dunlap
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The power to hold in check the vagaries of imagination may be gone.
The Great Hunger
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First, the failure to hold in check Labour's own drive towards the privatisation of commissioning.
The Guardian
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The spiritual enthusiast is not easy to hold in check, once he has been aroused!
The Mystics: A Novel
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You have no tyrannical husbands to hold in check-andyou surely do not destroy the unborn-
Herland
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His problems have unleashed doubts among conservatives that he had managed to hold in check for months.
Reuters
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The Sulpicians had been encouraged by Talon in order to eclipse and hold in check the Jesuits.
Canada: the Empire of the North / Being the Romantic Story of th...
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Belinda jerked her gaze from the floor, surprise too great to hold in check with the stillness.
The pretender's crown
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Similarly bombs which contained burning chemicals have been used to hold in check the approaching enemy forces.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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Ta Sin Lo did not see how one small mouse could hold in check three hundred men.
Beasts, Men and Gods
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Assyria suffered serious loss of prestige on account of its inability to hold in check its northern rival.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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He can hold in check his plough horses, but these young thoroughbreds are getting nervous at the post.
L.P.M. : The End of the Great War
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It needs a strong, as well as an able man to hold in check all the parties in the state.
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War
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In my excitement, I had forgotten that it would require my arm to hold in check the speed of the car.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891
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At such times a spirit of lawlessness and vengeance will break loose beyond the power of leaders to hold in check.
The Roof of France; Or, the Causses of the Lozère
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Degree, order, discipline, are the only sure safeguards against brute force and chaos which civilised institutions exist to hold in check:-
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays
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