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Prices are also held in check by group purchasing organizations.
The psychotherapist is held in check, but so is the storyteller.
In these instances, Trump was either trumped or held in check.
The decline was held in check by the resilience of household consumption.
Gold prices were a bit lower, held in check by a robust dollar.
It's a series of brainy notions: lyricism is held in check by cerebration.
The effect is of strong emotion held in check by a magisterial intellect.
That could mean extra targets for Edelman, who was held in check by Buffalo.
Gold's gains, however, were held in check by investors booking profits following the recent rally.
Burns has been held in check by Chicago with 11 points in 38 games. 2.
If outsiders engage now, the slide back to war may yet be held in check.
But, over the years, he has discovered that this register must be held in check.
Look for signs that Mr. Xi is extending his power or being held in check.
For now, the dollar was held in check by the relative strength of the yen.
After being held in check in the first half, Henry now has 134 rushing yards.
Now it is being held in check by a powerful new chemo drug called ibrutinib.
In theory, the president is coequal to Congress and to be held in check by it.
The feeling was there, deep and molten—volcanic—held in check by dint of constant effort.
Encarnacion has been held in check by Colon with only four hits in 19 at-bats.
Those divisions are being held in check by a military junta that seized power in 2014.
Antetokounmpo was held in check, as he only posted eight points and two assists and had no rebounds.
The moths did not die out, but the pest could be managed and crop damage held in check.
Significantly, the irrational choices made by this hand puppet were literally held in check by a good, rational man.
Crude futures traded in a narrow range, with gains held in check by a strengthening dollar and tepid equities.
We are apt to find the persistence unsettling because it hints at depths of rage being held in check.
They are able to reveal aspects of their personality that are held in check by social etiquette and rules.
Anias has suffered seizures since the surgery, but they have been held in check with medicine since Wednesday, officials said.
But the Midshipmen were held in check while averaging 4.2 yards per carry with 419 total yards on 73 plays.
But ethnic violence - long held in check by the state's iron grip - has flared up in many areas, including Amhara.
Meats, vegetable dumplings or cheese were also held in check; there were noticeably few morsels lurking under a flood of sauce.
But the power of the President of the United States can be held in check by a humble district court judge.
Milwaukee was held in check for seven innings by Arizona starter Zack Greinke, who left leading 22-226 after seven innings.
Traders said that prices were being held in check around current levels - rising output prevented increases, while strong demand prevented drops.
It also suits Jordan, and the Gulf states, yet more US allies who would prefer to see Iran held in check.
In the main Allegro section, the tempo was insistent but held in check, giving the music a nervous, almost panicked feel.
The big banks would not be held in check by his opponent, whose picture he tweeted alongside a Star of David.
Presumably, Dr. Ahammad and Dr. Graham explained, the healthy travelers "bad" gut flora were held in check by their "good" flora.
He has argued that economic statistics do not fully capture the fact that consumer prices are held in check by new technologies.
Despite the sky-high growth rate, Icelandic inflation has remained subdued, held in check by the strong currency and tight monetary policy.
Spot gold prices dropped 0.5% to $1,417.02 an ounce as the safe-haven metal was held in check by a robust dollar.
A malicious electronic disease held in check only by the joint forces of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Apple's passcode screen?
Leading goal scorer James Neal (15) has been held in check of late, tallying in only four of his last 22 contests.
The Brewers were held in check for seven innings by Arizona starter Zack Greinke, who left leading 3-2 after seven innings.
Depressed prices were held in check by a weaker dollar and talk of international oil producers potentially meeting to discuss output cuts.
Billy Hamilton is awful and probably will forever be held in check by the old baseball rule that you can't steal first base.
Pending home sales rose 3.8% in March, providing some hope in the real estate market so long as rates are held in check.
No matter what, Donald Trump will be held in check by his advisors, cabinet, and (most of all) the judicial and congressional branches.
Equities were held in check by a 2.64 percent drop in aerospace company Boeing, the best performing Dow component so far the year.
Winston was held in check on the scoreboard for most of the first half, but did compile eight assists to lead the Spartans.
For one thing, the economic pie is growing more slowly — held in check by lackluster investment, stunted business dynamism and low productivity growth.
Obama's "sassiness" in the book — an outspokenness that the first lady held in check after early criticism of her as angry or abrasive.
Since a vaccine was invented in the 1930s, it has been held in check, circulating in monkeys in Africa and the Amazon jungle.
"Global risk appetite was held in check amid a quiet data calendar yesterday," said analysts from Singapore's OCBC Bank in a morning note Tuesday.
Toews has 32 points (12 goals, 20 assists) in 31 career encounters with the Stars, but was held in check in the teams' first meeting.
So it's not so much aggressiveness, but that decisions and judgment that would normally be held in check are suddenly disinhibited under consumption of alcohol.
Leading scorer Josh McSwiggan, who entered the game averaging 14.3 points, was held in check by the Tar Heels' length and finished with six points.
The soup is deceptively mild at first, gaining carnality with each spoonful but never growing too forceful, held in check by a faint, ameliorating sweetness.
Reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year Khalil Mack has been held in check of late, registering just a half-sack over his last four games.
On a suffocating afternoon with dense heat, volatile winds and the threat of late afternoon storms, scores were held in check as the day wore on.
With Hield held in check, sitting on just three points until midway through the third quarter, Memphis built a double-digit lead in the first half.
The Rays were held in check for the most part by Yankees starter Michael Pineda, but scored two runs in the third with a two-out rally.
Mavericks point guard Jose Juan Barea, who averaged 226 points in his previous four games, was held in check in his return to his hometown of Miami.
Future development is held in check by a land management plan issued in 2013 that established five areas across the 23 million-acre reserve for special protection.
Gold's momentum was held in check by increased appetite for riskier assets, with world stock markets gaining on expectations of a trade agreement between Washington and Beijing.
The Giants (20-265) protected quarterback Eli Manning throughout, not allowing a Vikings sack, but were generally held in check otherwise and lost their second consecutive game.
Goldschmidt, however, was held in check the rest of the night, finishing 33-for-5 and ending the game when he struck out looking on three pitches.
The exception to these three broad patterns is Tunisia, where the authoritarian temptation is for the moment held in check by a more robust secular civil society.
While we nailed a few choices (sitting Josh Gordon), other players either went off for big weeks (Jameis Winston) while others were held in check (Will Fuller).
The efforts of Smith and the USC front seven after halftime held in check a Stanford rushing attack that gashed the Trojans through the first two quarters.
Such effective shadow-boxing had been held in check by the apparent ability of Israel to interdict Iranian efforts to supply Hezbollah with arms and munitions through Syria.
Their goal is to bring the United States in line with other advanced western democracies, where corporations are held in check and economic gains are more evenly distributed.
Commodities traders said some profit taking emerged at the higher end of copper's price rise, but was held in check somewhat by a weaker U.S. dollar. Non-U.
Walls are going up everywhere, and China has demonstrated that the internet can be controlled, but the spread of ideas and idealism is not easily held in check.
Gold's momentum was held in check by increased appetite for riskier assets like equities, with world stock markets gaining on expectations of a trade agreement between Washington and Beijing.
Finally, there is Ms. McLean's voice, a flexible instrument with unexpected reserves of power that she held in check until the right moments to unleash a startling feral wail.
Though he was far from a traditional Republican, many conservatives supported President Trump because they longed for a return to limited government and an executive branch held in check.
Unless that approach changes direction or is held in check by a newly elected Congress starting in January 2019, a good deal more environmental harm seems to be in store.
It's a big dam holding back the deluge, and that power, held in check behind her eyes—what she withholds, or lets you wait for—is evidence of real mastery.
I glean from seeing these things that poverty is other than just deprivation; it is also dilapidation — the slide towards entropy that isn't held in check by dutiful and competent maintenance.
The professor, in an October commentary in The Wall Street Journal, made a case for Trump over Hillary Clinton because the Republican presidential nominee would be held in check by Congress.
He was held in check for the first three-and-a-half quarters and was booed at one point by fans wanting to see former starter Joe Flacco enter the game.
San Diego State running back Donnel Pumphrey, who was 346 yards shy of breaking Ron Dayne's record for career rushing yards at 6,417, was held in check rushing with 76 yards.
In "The Taming of a Demagogue," Douthat writes that Trump has been "weak and trammeled and conventional in policy," and most of his worst authoritarian instincts have been held in check.
Even as the price of care, especially drugs, has increased, costs have been held in check because usage of healthcare benefits has not gone up - largely achieved by raising policyholders' deductibles.
I believe, as many do, that there's a lot of racism in America, and that one reason we don't see more of it is it's held in check by social opprobrium.
Irving, who scored 33 of his 23 points in the second half of Friday&aposs win over Oklahoma City, was held in check by the Magic&aposs defenders in the second half.
These are works that so want to be liked that whatever strangeness they embody is always held in check; they never go too far in any direction or wander off the road.
Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin is among the league leaders with 26 goals but has been held in check in his last two games after netting five tallies over his previous three contests.
Wouldn't it be better to have some of that money in circulation now, to spur economic activity as well as to fulfill personal goals long held in check by the tax man?
Cleveland features offensive rebounding specialist Tristan Thompson, but he has been held in check on the glass—and when he does grab the rebound, he hasn't been able to convert on putbacks.
The big picture: Retail prescription spending stayed relatively low last year because more people used cheaper generic drugs, and because price increases were held in check, actuaries wrote in the government's report.
Kyle Pugh was the game's top defensive player, making 15 stops for NIU, while BC All-America Harold Landry, held in check most of the night, was a factor down the stretch.
The overall confidence index was held in check by a more polarized view of economic conditions, as business owners were more likely to hold non-neutral views across the index's eight component issues.
Todd Frazier is a blistering 5-for-9 with two homers, nine RBIs and four runs scored in the series, but has been held in check versus Hamels (4-for-23, five strikeouts).
Rice disputed Trump's assertions, noting that Tehran's nuclear program was held in check in the immediate aftermath of the deal's signing and that no significant escalations on other fronts were seen from Iran.
But there, the boom has been driven by individual buyers, household debt has been held in check and lending standards have remained relatively tight — all factors that reduce the chance of another collapse.
West Virginia's highly touted front court was mostly held in check with forward Derek Culver finishing with 8 points and 3 rebounds, with freshman forward Oscar Tshiebwe scored 8 and grabbed 7 boards.
Contrary to the forecasts, the dollar has slumped, commodities have taken a beating across the board and government bond yields have been held in check despite more aggressive policy from the Federal Reserve.
Although X-Men leader Cyclops doesn't get much screen time in the movies, he has one of the coolest mutant powers: force beams from his eyes, held in check by a special ruby visor.
Oil prices held firm on rising tensions between the West and Iran and a big decline in U.S. crude stockpiles, though gains were held in check by worries about slowing growth in major economies.
Economic conditions remain favorable overall if a bit tepid, with interest rates still low in historical terms and inflation held in check, though worker paychecks are growing at just a 2.5 percent annual rate.
Vinatieri atoned for a missed PAT and missed field-goal attempt to lift the Colts (5-2) to their third straight win on a day in which quarterback Jacoby Brissett was held in check.
In the latter picture, the diagonal rightward pitch of the female nude's bed is held in check by the green, blue, yellow, and pink bedspread rising like a bulwark from the canvas's bottom edge.
However, Hannity was held in check by other news outlets and eventually apologized, something you'd never see from a fake news website The proliferation of hoax news sources makes reporting verifiable facts increasingly impossible.
Jordan Matthews has been held in check with just six catches over his last three games, but hauled in that many receptions for 224 yards and a touchdown in his last meeting with the Redskins.
D&aposAngelo Brewer gained 119 yards on 21 carries but the Golden Hurricane&aposs ground attack was held in check after beginning the day ranked 12th in the nation with 260.2 yards rushing per game.
The UN's climate science panel has said the total must be limited to 1,000 Gt C if global warming is to be held in check at a relatively safe two degree Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
Gains on the Dow were held in check by a 1193% drop in Boeing Co after a report that federal prosecutors had subpoenaed records relating to the production of the 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina.
In the UK, gains on the FTSE 100, the worst performing major benchmark in Europe this year, were held in check by weakness in commodities companies, Wolseley and BT, though a weaker sterling helped support exporters.
Christopher Padilla, IBM's vice president for government affairs, argued in a blog post on Thursday that internet companies need to be held in check by the government in the same way firms in other industries are.
Christopher Padilla, IBM's vice president for government affairs, argued in a blog post on Thursday that internet companies need to be held in check by the government in the same way firms in other industries are.
Last month, the Treasury Department issued a report recommending that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau be held in check, accusing it of regulatory overreach and calling for the president to be able to remove its director.
With their animating factor held in check by others, and with no immediate end to the situation in sight, some of the very professionals that we should be valuing most are instead being given the opposite signal.
ET, No TV ABOUT WYOMING (4-0): Not many teams could overcome its top scorer being held in check and another starter going out with an illness, but the Cowboys were able to thanks to Alexander Aka Gorski.
And yet, while we hope that he will be carted off, or at least held in check by whichever of his advisers and secretaries is the least odious, we are also—like all those ministers and congresspeople—transfixed.
"And that's what comes to mind when I see our elected officials behind banks of microphones, imitating each other's body language, twitching; hostility held in check by the thinnest veneer of civility," he writes in an artist statement.
While there is some bias, major American news outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Washington Post, Fox News, MSBC and CNN are held in check by other creditable, mainstream news outlets.
Since taking power, Abiy has released political prisoners, removed bans on political parties and prosecuted officials accused of gross human rights abuses, but his government is battling ethnic bloodshed once held in check by the state's iron grip.
Mark Scheifele recorded two goals and an assist in the first two contests before being held in check by the Bruins, but the Ontario-born star has eight points (five goals, three assists) in five career encounters with Toronto.
Romeo Langford and Juwan Morgan were held in check, combining to go 6 for 24 from the field, but the Hoosiers got important contributions from Smith, Green and Rob Phinisee in their second victory over the Spartans this season.
Cincinnati has scored 53 runs en route to winning five of its last seven games while National League East-leading Washington saw its offense held in check after erupting for 26 runs in wins in its previous four contests.
The 26-year-old's scoring binge has been a welcome sight for the Flames, but Colborne was held in check in the first encounter with the Wild and has mustered only two points - both assists - in seven career meetings against them.
In commodities, oil prices rose as the dollar edged away from a multi-week high, though gains were held in check by unchanged Russian output for February, a sign of its weak compliance on a global deal to cut supplies.
Sweetness leaches from rock sugar, goji berries, star anise, cloves, cinnamon and licorice — the scents alone stir the palate — and is held in check by heat, conjured by doubanjiang, dried red chiles and Sichuan peppercorns for a low-level buzz.
Yet many in Colombia believe that by lifting the presidential mandate once, Mr. Uribe undermined the checks and balances in the Colombian Constitution that were designed to ensure that presidents are held in check by officials nominated by their predecessors.
The public fascination with speculating in housing has been held in check by regulators empowered by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, but that restraint is tenuous with the election as president of a real estate promoter intent on reducing regulators' power.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq edged into positive territory on Monday, with gains held in check by falling industrials as investors braced for what analysts now expect to be the first quarter of contracting earnings since 633.
Suelette Dreyfus, a longtime friend of Mr. Assange's and an academic who studies whistle-blowing, says his sole motivation is a deep-seated belief that governments and other large and powerful institutions must be held in check to safeguard the rights of individuals.
LONDON (Reuters) - The euro rode out signs of gains for far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday, inching higher against the dollar and the yen in trade held in check by the absence of U.S. investors because of a holiday.
Held in check for a game and a half, the Astros secured a frantic 7-6 extra-innings victory over the Dodgers that put them in the driver's seat heading back to Houston with the best-of-seven series tied 1-1.
Erik Karlsson, who had been held in check by the Bruins in Games 202 and 25, turned it on and was everywhere in the overtime — his rush down the right side ending when David Pastrnak pulled MacArthur down leading to the Ottawa win.
Aside from Holliday's home run, his 19th of the season, the Yankees' offense, which was without Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez and Brett Gardner, was held in check by Blue Jays starter Brett Anderson, who had never beaten the Yankees in six previous starts.
In his TV appearances, puppeted by an invisible army of scriptwriters, this tendency is barely held in check, but in his lectures or on the internet it's torrential; a seeping flood of grey goo, paring down the world to its driest, dullest, most colourless essentials.
Some selling in U.S. bonds emerged earlier Tuesday as investor fears were held in check after China kept its currency in a slightly stronger level a day after it let the yuan weaken to seven to a dollar, a level not seen in a decade.
The American people will now be effectively asked whether a President who accepts few limits on his power can be held in check by a separate branch of government or whether he can avoid such an examination, a decision that will echo through history.
Given the way the two contenders won — with Clemson able to impose its will but Alabama able to dominate even with Henry, its best weapon, being held in check — the talk will undoubtedly emerge that Alabama will simply outgun, outman and outplan the Tigers. Maybe.
And in a week which has seen the U.S dollar firm broadly, the greenback was held in check by falling Treasury yields and lingering concerns that President Trump may reiterate his opposition to a strong dollar at a meeting with his Japanese counterpart on Friday.
"This orchestra has a burning ardor, which must sometimes be held in check in order to let it out at the right moment," the soft-spoken Mr. Petrenko told the cellist Olaf Maninger in a conversation taped for the orchestra's Digital Concert Hall platform.
He has been held in check partly by international donors, including the United States, that have poured billions of dollars of aid into Cambodia, including in health care for the poor and an international tribunal to try the remnants of the Khmer Rouge leadership.
For all of Trump's power, his ability to do damage to the republic could be held in check by the fact that many elected legislators from his own party retain a deep commitment to the Constitution, and have been deeply dismayed by many of his statements.
"Donald Trump has not only brought haters into the mainstream, he has normalized hate for a much broader swathe of the population who were perhaps already disaffected but had their grievances and latent prejudices held in check by social norms," observed Josh Marshall, publisher of TalkingPointsMemo.
New York (2-1) got on the board with a gritty, 3-2 win on Havana, but the DPS duo of captain Jong-ryeol "Saebyeolbe" Park and Seung-jun "WhoRU" Lee were quiet relative to their past performances, held in check by Philadelphia's focus and aggression.
Joe Mixon, RB, Bengals Mixon's terrific talent was largely held in check early on by Cincinnati's ineptitude, but he was the RB4 from Weeks 10 through 17, and the Bengals' offense — which will presumably soon add LSU QB Joe Burrow — could be much better in 2020. 15.
The yellow-on-yellow reflective light on "Way Finder," for one, is nothing if not sublime, yet held in check by the forbidding rigor of the shapes it has set aglow, as if to remind us that there is only so much pleasure we can take.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Sunlight drifts across a set of white blinds in dappled patterns as if it had been dispatched from a stellar heaven but then held in check by dense, dark foliage —  until those boughs and branches are intermittently shouldered aside by soft breezes.
Swaggering, curved lines from beneath are held in check by streaming, blurred, white horizontals with blurred black verticals on top; and if that were not enough to disquiet the soul, Scully marches forth with another layer of ochre and pink striations at indeterminate intervals, seamlessly putting each of them in place.
The Yankees' offense, largely held in check for the fourth time in five games, got their only runs against starter Vince Velasquez on two swings — a lunging, run-scoring bloop double by Gleyber Torres and a screaming liner by Aaron Judge that just cleared the wall down the left-field line for a solo homer.
At least for now, the imperious presidency of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE has been held in check by a third branch of government, the judiciary.
It must have taken Hardy almost an entire morning to learn his lines, which seem even sparser than his dialogue for "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015), although, as we know from that masterwork, the less we hear from him the tighter our grasp of his character, and the greater the powers that seem to be held in check.
After suffering a defeat when he tried to install a pliant finance minister in December, Mr Zuma appeared to have been held in check, not least because one court then found that he had breached his oath of office for spending state money on his own home, and another ruled that prosecutors should not have dropped corruption charges against him.
Syracuse holds off Pittsburgh With his two favorite weapons held in check for much of the game, Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey took matters into his own hands Saturday as the Orange outlasted the Pittsburgh Panthers 27-24 on Saturday on homecoming weekend at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y. After scoring on just one of their first seven possessions, the Orange scored on their next four to end the first half and start the second.
"But it is still far from certain that they will bite in the way intended... Germany has said it will protect its companies from U.S. sanctions, Iran has said French oil giant Total has yet to pull out of its fields and all the while it seems the Chinese are ready to fill the void created by the U.S.," he said Markets were also held in check by a rise in U.S. drilling for new oil production.
Speaking of the possibility of a Trump Presidency, Stein made the stunning claim that Donald Trump, despite the unbridled awfulness of his agenda, would actually be the "less dangerous" choice for President compared to rival Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, because he doesn't know how to work the levers of government and would be held in check by Congress.

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