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Meanings of keep in check in English

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Usage of keep in check in English
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Chinese policymakers announced a change in posture to help keep in check their fast-growing economy.
Reuters
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You still have a few fires, at home and at work, to keep in check.
Ebony
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But of course it's the sort of thing one must keep in check at ICP.
"Undo": A Novel
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We must keep in check those in front.
The Three Admirals
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Which I know I must keep in check.
Speaking in Bones
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They were intended to keep in check a conquered people, and also to repress hostile incursions.
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
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You'll find that I shall keep in check
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920
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It can help to keep in check the political forces which tend to make some sectors uncompetitive.
Reuters
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The police did all they could to keep in check those parties who were intent upon stealing away.
Indian Boyhood
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Again he recalled another feline face and the burgeoning emotions he had been forced to keep in check.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
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Prince Harry's bodyguards have said the royal is almost impossible to keep in check, but they love him anyway.
News.com.au
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House People do not realize that those gnawers are the greatest enemies that the Wise Watchers keep in check.
Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginne...
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The junta has also called in scores of senior abbots, telling them to keep in check their young charges.
Reuters
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She could indulge a few mannerisms which, when she was younger, it had been wiser to keep in check.
New york: the novel
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Simple living and severe toil keep in check the passions and make it possible to mold the mind with moral precepts.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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When inhaled, it can help to keep in check symptoms of various skin disorders such as psoriasis or dermatitis, it says.
The Irish Times
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