It was terrific, to hold in check a nature such as his.

The power to hold in check the vagaries of imagination may be gone.

First, the failure to hold in check Labour's own drive towards the privatisation of commissioning.

The spiritual enthusiast is not easy to hold in check, once he has been aroused!

You have no tyrannical husbands to hold in check-andyou surely do not destroy the unborn-

His problems have unleashed doubts among conservatives that he had managed to hold in check for months.

The Sulpicians had been encouraged by Talon in order to eclipse and hold in check the Jesuits.

Belinda jerked her gaze from the floor, surprise too great to hold in check with the stillness.

Similarly bombs which contained burning chemicals have been used to hold in check the approaching enemy forces.

Ta Sin Lo did not see how one small mouse could hold in check three hundred men.

Assyria suffered serious loss of prestige on account of its inability to hold in check its northern rival.

He can hold in check his plough horses, but these young thoroughbreds are getting nervous at the post.

It needs a strong, as well as an able man to hold in check all the parties in the state.

In my excitement, I had forgotten that it would require my arm to hold in check the speed of the car.

At such times a spirit of lawlessness and vengeance will break loose beyond the power of leaders to hold in check.

Degree, order, discipline, are the only sure safeguards against brute force and chaos which civilised institutions exist to hold in check:-