Our coach journey crawled through the streets as police tried to keep them at bay.

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In other words, when the wolves come back to our door, there will be fewer, and noticeably weaker, dogs to keep them at bay.

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One way to keep them at bay is to preach conservation.

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The country's northern neighbours have consistently supported the alliance in a bid to keep the Taliban at bay: all of them have restive Muslim communities who might be affected by any spread of Islamic insurgence.

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The episode highlighted the extralegal powers of the security forces, which had hired thugs to guard and intimidate Mr Chen and his family, and to keep well-wishers at bay, sometimes by beating them up.

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That's where the goofy recipes come in dozens of them circulating on the Internet and beyond all claiming to keep the cancer-causing chemicals at bay even in well-done meat.

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The conglomerates' revenues and share prices should hold up better than those of other mining firms, allowing them to buy struggling firms at a discount provided, of course, that they can keep their hunger at bay until then.

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