His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

He kept sayin, not me, not me, I don't wanta wind up like em.

Some distribution costs are kept up by competitive pressure, some by the fact that the customers have come to expect certain niceties and flourishes.

As he applied the applicator extending from the machine -- which consisted of seven differently colored neon tubes superimposed on a rectangular base -- to the supposedly diseased portions of Mrs. Shaefer's body, Lee kept up a steady stream of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

He tried to turn right to the society page in each one, but interesting stories kept cropping up to distract him.

Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she couldn't stop, and she kept on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining.

I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.

You could think yourself as grown up as Methuselah, yet the maternal voice still kept its comforting magic.

Part of it was being so tired -- I'd not only had my usual full day yesterday, but a dinner meeting as well, that kept me up late.

Must have really smelled up her sweater, he thought, and wondered idly just why she kept the sweater fast-frozen.

They kept up a rigid pretense of speaking relations.

Dolores kept picking up any of his clothes ( except the fatal shorts ) which he left about, but he had been robbed of pleasure in scattering his possessions.

Jubal couldn't reconstruct the crime from the way the girls behaved because patterns kept shifting -- ABC vs D, then BCD vs A or AB vs CD, or AD vs CB, through all ways that four women can gang up on each other.

The male children who were the result of these visits were either killed, sent back to their fathers or exposed in the wilderness to fend for themselves ; the girls were kept and brought up by their mothers, and trained in agricultural pursuits, hunting, and the art of war.

This led to the first of a number of periods in which an outside power controlled Athens ; Often the outside power set up a local agent as political boss in Athens ; but when Athens was independent, it operated under its traditional form of government ; even the bosses, like Demetrius of Phalerum, kept the traditional institutions in formal existence.

The farmers kept turning up artifacts and terracotta funerary urns that seemed to be Roman.

He was a direct descendant of the last of the Umayyad caliphs, Marwan II, and was thus connected with the Umayyad rulers in Spain, and seems to have kept up a correspondence with them and to have sent them some of his works.

* First and foremost, it governed player contracts that set up mechanisms to end the cross-league raids on rosters and reinforced the power of the hated reserve clause that kept players virtual slaves to their baseball masters.

Throughout the engagement the French rear had kept up an arbitrary fire on the battling ships ahead.

Ivinskaya later recalled, " But I became so ill through loss of blood that she and Luisa had to get me to the hospital, and I not longer remember exactly what passed between me and this heavily built, strong-minded woman, who kept repeating how she didn't give a damn for our love and that, although she no longer loved Leonidovich herself, she would not allow her family to be broken up.

In a symmetric key algorithm ( e. g., DES and AES ), the sender and receiver must have a shared key set up in advance and kept secret from all other parties ; the sender uses this key for encryption, and the receiver uses the same key for decryption.

* Chief Quality Officer or CQO, The Chief Quality Officer is responsible for setting up quality goals and assuring that those goals are kept

Side rails on the bed should be kept up to prevent patient from falling.

When the clutch locked up the driven mechanism coasted and its inertia rotated the disc until a tooth on it engaged a pawl that kept it from reversing.

The parasite remains viable at 4 ° C for at least 18 days or up to 250 days when kept at room temperature.

Instead, the value of the AMD was kept high, out of a fear of inflation and concern about alienating the powerful government-connected importers of oil, sugar, flour, cigarettes and beverages.

IBM kept some secrets, as Coppersmith explains: " After discussions with NSA, it was decided that disclosure of the design considerations would reveal the technique of differential cryptanalysis, a powerful technique that could be used against many ciphers.

De Roches was a powerful Anjou noble, but John largely ignored him, causing considerable offence, whilst the king kept the rebel leaders in such bad conditions that twenty-two of them died.

European models kept a 4. 7 L engine, which was somewhat more powerful as standard, though the American-spec 32-valve engine together with catalytic converters became an option in some European countries and Australia for 1985.

Over the years, many have tried to obtain or affect the mound of Vibranium at Wakanda, but for the most part Wakanda has kept it safe, and become quite powerful in the process.

Through the oral tradition Homer transferred the beliefs during the Dark-Ages, but he kept in memory the confederacy of the Greeks under the powerful king of Mycenae.

However, Tamar's own prestige and the expansion of patronq ' moba – a Georgian version of feudalism – kept the more powerful dynastic princes from fragmenting the kingdom.

The large caliber ensured a powerful shaped charge capable of destroying tanks ; the low velocity had no apparent impact on HEAT effectiveness and kept overall gun weight down.

Having a distrust of Russian nobles, Anna kept them from powerful positions, instead giving those to Baltic Germans.

The palantír of Amon Sûl, most powerful of the three in Arnor, was kept for centuries in the Watchtower of Amon Sûl.

It is possible Edward kept his marriage secret because he feared the fury and criticism of his advisers, such as his cousin Richard Neville, the rich and extremely powerful Earl of Warwick.

State interventions in markets ( once created ) must be kept to a bare minimum because, according to the theory, the state cannot possibly possess enough information to second-guess market signals ( prices ) and because powerful interest groups will inevitably distort and bias state interventions ( particularly in democracies ) for their own benefit.

She wanted to have a son who would be more powerful than Indra ( who had killed her previous children ) and so she practiced magic and kept herself pregnant for one year.

Commonly this card is associated with the card reader or the querant, because it is also focused on ' secrets ' it also interpreted when a secret is kept or revealed, when you are holding on to the truth or revealing it, the card associated with mystery, when powerful feminine influences and support currently in force for the querant.

Marlborough had been kept well informed of events while in exile and had remained a powerful figure on the political scene, not least because of the personal attachment the Queen still retained for him.

Even though he had a profound belief in the sanctity of his office and kept up the appearance of an absolute, powerful monarch, he never took more than a passive part in the direction of his own government, occupying himself with hunting.

In 931 he entered service as page to Hugh of Arles, who kept court at Pavia as King of Italy and who married the notorious and powerful Marozia of Rome.

Hongwu kept a powerful army which in 1384 he re-organized using a model known as the Wèisuǒ system ().

* Lines through the Scottish Highlands such as the Far North Line and the West Highland Line, although listed for closure, were kept open, in part because of pressure from the powerful Highland lobby.

Barrow did this on 31 July1669, but kept the name of the author a secret, and merely told Collins that he was a friend staying at Cambridge, who had a powerful genius for such matters.

The largest and most powerful palantír in the North was kept in the Tower of Amon Sûl.

Ayesha shows Leo the perfectly preserved body of Kallikrates, which she has kept with her, but she then dissolves the remains with a powerful acid, confident that Leo is indeed the reincarnation of her former lover.

Consequently his voice, although still astonishingly powerful and kept under firm technical control, was no longer at its peak, though the recording technology of the time was almost certainly not equal to the task of capturing the full breadth of Tamagno's ability at the time.

However, she has also shown genuine affection and emotion, even if she tries to hide it: when her affair with Tamlin leaves her with a human son ( possibly the powerful magician Timothy Hunter ), she is devastated to have to send him to Earth to keep the secret of her nature and her affair from the King and risks sending her entire realm to war against Hell to protect her son with Auberon from being kept in Hell as payment of Faerie's tithe to the demons.