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 have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

But now we can keep it out no longer, because we have come into a time when `` it invades our experience at every moment.

Seemingly, with an unrestricted flow of ideas, all will be well, and we are even assured that `` an idea a day will keep the sheriff away ''.

There were times it wasn't right to make a person happy, like the times she came in the kitchen and asked know we don't keep peanut `` butter for a peanut butter sandwich.

Unless we keep our eyes on the horizon ahead, we shall fail to bring ourselves on target with the present.

From the records we keep -- Susan is the only Junior who has placed in the Junior Classes in both United States and Canada.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;

`` Canada doesn't have much of this here juvenile delinquency problem, but we keep a night policeman all the same on account of the crazy tourists ''.

Before we built the new jail, we used to keep prisoners in here overnight sometimes when the old jail got too crowded.

He cited East Germany where after 15 years of Soviet rule it has become necessary to build a wall to keep the people in, and added, `` so long as people rebel, we must not give up ''.

`` We always like to keep the ball as much as we can against Denver because they have such an explosive attack '', explained Stram.

It is true that we must keep up our national defenses and scientific accomplishments ; ;

That is why it is so very important that ethical analysis keep clear the problem of decision as to `` permitted '' effects, and not draw back in fright from any conceivable contingency or suffer paralysis of action before possibilities or probabilities unrelated, or not directly morally related, to what we can and may and must do as long as human history endures.

But if you keep a calendar of events, as we do, you noticed a conflict.

" He continued, " We believe that by attacking with tanks we can achieve a higher rate of movement than has been hitherto obtainable, and — what is perhaps even more important — that we can keep moving once a breakthrough has been made.

" Samar Khatiwala, an oceanographer at Columbia University concludes that the studies suggest " we cannot count on these sinks operating in the future as they have in the past, and keep on subsidizing our ever-growing appetite for fossil fuels.

If we are to keep a right-handed coordinate system, into the page will be in the negative z direction.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.