Sentences with phrase «normally kept at bay»

Finally, it would be helpful to have characterized sources of moisture that then precipitate as snowfall, since my understanding (which is undoubtedly in need of correction) was that it was cold dry air mass that are normally kept at bay by the jet stream that creep over land mass and meet moist air that was carried north from lower latitudes.

Sargassum comes from the Sargasso Sea in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and is normally kept at bay by water temperatures and currents.

Every year nearly 30,000 Americans die from an aggressive, gut - infecting bacteria called Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which is resistant to many common antibiotics and can flourish when antibiotic treatment kills off beneficial bacteria that normally keep it at bay.

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We normally manage to keep the insistent calls of the true working self at bay during the week.

The problem appears to lie in the drugs» disruption of a person's protective microflora — the resident bacteria that normally help keep invader microbes at bay.

These beneficial bacteria normally work to keep harmful bacteria at bay.