keep in check

If not kept in check, it can take over your life.

I do not see that they are being kept in check at all.

Rice was kept in check for the rest of the game.

But to his own people, he is saying that dissent will be kept in check.

I want you to make sure his punks are kept in check.

He has to be kept in check better than he is.

But I read hunger, kept in check mainly by fear.

Connecticut hoped that kind of play would be kept in check.

And Pat had taste that she was willing to keep in check until their time came.

It was not clear that armed groups could be kept in check any time soon without more security on roads outside of the city.

The disorder was kept in check through diet and drugs.

Anxiety about economic survival and audience growth has to be kept in check.

This is usually kept in check by using tally marks.

It is therefore high time that rating agencies were kept in check.

Development has been kept in check, and the many layers of the city's 990-year history are visible everywhere.

Development is kept in check by zoning laws enacted 50 years ago.

Glen, I'm not here to flame, but rather keep in check.

If their populations are not kept in check, there may eventually be too many for you to defend against.

His mother was patient, yes, and kept in check the disgust she felt for the habits of those around her.

There are ethnic rivalries, that so far have been kept in check by the government.

Me - and my talent, which I've sworn to keep in check.

The celebrating and adrenaline rush need to be kept in check.

Normally, this feedback loop is kept in check by the body.

There was a haunted look on her face that spoke of fear barely kept in check.

Reggie Miller was kept in check and missed a long 2-pointer with 5.3 seconds left.