Gold prices held in a slight range, kept in check by a lack of influencing factors.
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Until recently, those pressures had been kept in check partly thanks to a strong dollar.
As their profits have recovered, the larger legacy carriers have kept in check their urges to increase capacity.
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Doctors are beginning to discuss treating cancer as a chronic disease that could be kept in check with a cocktail of pills.
Unlike in Egypt, Gadhafi is the regime, and sectarian elements that have been kept in check under his regime already are coming to the fore.
But for some 50 years, the system worked and it worked well and debts were retired and expenditures by the federal government were kept in check.
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Up till now, such insubordination has usually been kept in check: witness the abortive attempt a few years ago by Sverdlovsk's governor to launch his region's own currency.
And many voters are still likely to credit Congress for a strong economy (at least if inflation can be kept in check), with annual growth now running at an impressive 9%.
Rooney had been kept in check for most of the opening period but he hinted at his threat when he burst through to round Tim Howard but his touch was too heavy and the chance was gone.
Richer beneficiaries should pay more of their share of Medicare, while the generosity of the system should be kept in check by the independent panel set up under Mr Obama's health reform to monitor services and payments.
There is a sort of partisanship that is useful, indeed essential, to the government of democracies: the friction of different, but considered, points of view, as a result of which problems are solved and excesses kept in check.
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The German household savings rate, at around 12%, is higher than the rest of Europe's and the government's short-term working schemes--in which wages are topped up to help companies avoid layoffs--has kept unemployment in check.
Only in the U.S. and Japan--and, to a lesser extent the U.K.--have tax burdens been kept somewhat in check.
In a densely packed metropolis like New York or Chicago, where voters wish everyone to be unarmed, illegal gun users can be kept in reasonable check by aggressive enforcement.
China's stock market is one of the world's worst performers in 2012, and government controls have kept property prices in check, making corporate bonds one of the few bright spots for Chinese investors.
They kept their tempers in check, though it was apparent many residents just want to go home.
It kept costs further in check by flying used aircraft on long-term leases.
But then he grew up, knuckled down, kept his weight in check and became a model professional deserving of admiration.
Fortunately Forbes kept me on while I kept my hours in check.
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Poulter's early round of 70 saw him creep up the leaderboard as a stiffening breeze and bumpy greens kept the afternoon scoring in check.
I've kept them more or less in check, thinking they might affront people of color in this whole public desire to do some cultural exchanges - lay bridges across raging waters, and all that.
Mr. Jobs long kept the strong personalities at Apple in check by always casting the winning vote or by having the last word.
He said animal welfare officers "always come and check, and they say to me some of these animals are kept in better conditions than what they are in stables".
The middle order was held in check by slow bowlers Regan West and Kyle McCallan, and the wickets kept coming too.
In the 20 years since it was first established, the national background check system has already kept more than 2 million dangerous people from buying a gun.
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