So Mr. Crombie sat on a wooden box and talked in order to keep Mr. Blatz's mind from funny things.

There are three soft-drink vending machines, and if you should be joined by -- anybody -- try to keep things quiet, if you will.

The toilet hadn't had a sincere scrubbing in years and there were things written on the walls of the little boxed-in place because you couldn't keep the public out -- entirely.

A team playing with this style emphasizes doing little things ( including risky running plays like base-stealing ) to advance runners and score runs, often relying on pitching and defense to keep games close.

The purpose of practicing brahmacharya is to keep a person focused on the purpose in life, the things that instill a feeling of peace and contentment.

Among other things Thomas suggested to Sanders that were implemented ; KFC's signature chicken bucket ( to keep the chicken crisp ), reduce the number of items on the menu, focus on a signature dish, and introduce the trademark sign featuring a revolving red-striped bucket of chicken.

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

They explain that they keep the Earth's natural order of things in balance.

Edison Carter ( Matt Frewer ) was a hard-hitting reporter for Network 23, who sometimes uncovered things that his superiors in the network would have preferred to keep private.

In October 1919, while regaining her strength after an appendectomy, she confided to a friend that giving up college and her dreams of a " journalistic career " to keep house and take her mother's place in society meant " giving up all the worthwhile things that counted for — nothing!

The right to privacy is our right to keep a domain around us, which includes all those things that are part of us, such as our body, home, property, thoughts, feelings, secrets and identity.

Early in the second book, a woman is changed into a centaur, and the records of her birth as a genetic experiment were automatically created by the Well World to explain the change and keep things balanced.

But let every one of you keep the Sabbath after a spiritual manner, rejoicing in meditation on the law, not in relaxation of the body, admiring the workmanship of God, and not eating things prepared the day before, nor using lukewarm drinks, and walking within a prescribed space, nor finding delight in dancing and plaudits which have no sense in them.

Throughout her speech she kept stressing that “ we should keep things going while things are stirring ” and fears that once the fight for colored rights settles down, it would take a long time to warm people back up to the idea of colored women ’ s having equal rights.

A civilian commissioner ( not unlike a commissar ) accompanied each army to keep an eye on things, especially the mercenaries.

Thus Vancouver knew of the names given by Eliza's expedition and tended to keep them, although he renamed some things, like the Strait of Georgia.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

He's capable of keeping track of five different things in a way that most very, very good lawyers could keep track of one of them ...

The convention details ( amongst other things ) that " Every driver shall keep to the edge of the carriageway appropriate to the direction of traffic ", and the " Drivers overtaking shall do so on the side opposite to that appropriate to the direction of traffic ", notwithstanding the presence or absence of oncoming traffic.

Other things they stole were household items like bits of soap and gear like rope and anchors, or sometimes they would keep the ship they captured ( either to sell off or keep because it was better than their ship ).

One of the most noticeable things in Touro is the fact that the classes are separate for men and women to keep in line with strict Haredi lifestyles.

In later years he has also been quite outspoken of the pursuit of science as a whole: Naur can possibly be identified with the empiricist school, that tells that one shall not seek deeper connections between things that manifest themselves in the world, but keep to the observable facts.

A SAX parser only needs to report each parsing event as it happens, and normally discards almost all of that information once reported ( it does, however, keep some things, for example a list of all elements that have not been closed yet, in order to catch later errors such as end-tags in the wrong order ).

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

You may dress it up with any number of accessories or keep it as simple as you choose.

Such computers are more versatile in that they do not need to have their hardware reconfigured for each new program, but can simply be reprogrammed with new in-memory instructions ; they also tend to be simpler to design, in that a relatively simple processor may keep state between successive computations to build up complex procedural results.

Golf is a simple fantasy game to administer and keep tabs on, since you are concerned only with the scores of your team members without anything else to complicate it.

Variations include " keep it stupid simple ", " keep it short and simple ", " keep it simple sir ", " keep it simple or be stupid ", " keep it simple and stupid ", " keep it simple and straightforward " or " keep it simple and sincere.

We should avoid these congestion points or, putting it another way, keep cars starting and ending on the East side of the river -- on the East side.

Fly cutters can fool you into putting your hand too close to the tool, so if you want to avoid nicked fingers, keep your hands well out of the way.

Several photographs and charts of galaxies help the non-scientist keep up with the discussion, and the smooth language indicates the contributors were determined to avoid the jargon that seems to work its way into almost every field.

On the other hand, raising the interest rate is often used in times of high economic growth as a contra-cyclical device to keep the economy from overheating and avoid market bubbles.

Simcoe was instructed to avoid giving the US reason to mistrust Britain, but at the same time to keep the Native Americans on both sides of the border friendly to Britain.

Kenneth Waltz has argued that nuclear weapons have helped keep an uneasy peace, and further nuclear weapon proliferation might even help avoid the large scale conventional wars that were so common prior to their invention at the end of World War II.

By the late 18th century, a number of defeats in several wars with Russia led some people in the Ottoman Empire to conclude that the reforms of " Deli Petro " ( Peter the Mad, as Peter the Great was known in Turkey ) had given the Russians an edge, and the Ottomans would have to keep up with Western technology in order to avoid further defeats.

Howard, determined to avoid a repetition of the 1993 election, adopted a " small target " strategy – committing to keep Labor reforms such as Medicare, and defusing the republic issue by promising to hold a constitutional convention.

Operators and developers / vendors of systems that rely on security by obscurity may keep the fact that their system is broken secret to avoid destroying confidence in their service or product and thus its marketability, and this may amount to fraudulent misrepresentation of the security of their products.

For the film's look, the Coens wanted to avoid the usual retro 1960s clichés like lava lamps, Day-Glo posters, and Grateful Dead music and for it to be " consistent with the whole bowling thing, we wanted to keep the movie pretty bright and poppy ", Joel said in an interview.

Chevron said that one way to keep enjoying what they were doing was to avoid making a new album, although he did say that there still is a possibility in the future for new music, but certainly not in the near future.

Nevertheless, the country managed to avoid a recession and keep positive growth rates, mainly through higher public expenditure and investment, and GDP growth exceeded 7 % in 2010.

In general, it is considered good advice to keep hand-painted items out of direct sunlight to avoid fading.

The design of zip-cord makes it easy to keep conductors that carry related electrical or optical signals together and helps avoid tangling of cables.

A person may be wearing a rosary as a statement of faith, to keep it handy for praying throughout the day, or to avoid losing it.

The deniability can be important to keep the state actor from being tainted by the actions, to allow the state actor to negotiate in apparent good faith by claiming they are not responsible for the actions of parties who are merely sympathizers, or to avoid being accused of belligerent actions or war crimes.

To avoid accidents caused by fatigue, truckers have to keep to strict rules for drivetime and required rest periods.

The availability of this technology allows companies to keep a supply of blank PROMs in stock, and program them at the last minute to avoid large volume commitment.

Although many African-Americans use braiding extensions as a form of convenience, it is important not to keep the braids up longer than needed to avoid hair breakage or hair loss.

Balancing power to keep the European pentarchy was the means for keeping the peace, and careful Realpolitikers tried to avoid arms races.

The batter must keep in contact with the post to avoid being declared out.

Its officers were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and to avoid detection.

* Silhouette helped avoid having to keep track of shading on an animated character or object.

In Peter Jackson's film adaptation, the entire subplot of Frodo buying a house in Crickhollow was dropped to both keep Jackson's portrayal focused and to avoid over-complicating the screenplay.

Users are encouraged to always keep their web browsers up-to-date to avoid exposing their computer and data to vulnerabilities that are discovered.