Sentences with phrase «of keeping him at bay»

Matched up against Okafor, Williams will face the Herculean task of keeping him at bay — and of warding off Okafor's precocious freshman sidemen, Josh Boone and Charlie Villanueva — without accumulating a raft of fouls.

Messi's quality, however, may have dampened Chelsea spirits as their long run of keeping him at bay prior to the first leg match feels like a distant memory now.

Erecting fences and poking the enemies through them with a spear proved to be the most efficient way of keeping them at bay.

Not exact matches

For now, relatively tame commodities prices are «keeping longer term inflation at bay,» and pressuring gold, said Rob Lutts, chief investment officer of Cabot Wealth Management.

If nationalists hoped these measures presaged an era of keeping the Yankee barbarians at bay, they were to be sorely disappointed.

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

After the director left, I must have looked pretty surprised as the CFO explained, «We have tens of thousands of employees, and at the rate we're growing it's almost impossible to keep up with our space needs in the Bay Area.

Police used water hoses in below - freezing temperatures to keep about 400 protesters at bay, a move criticized by activist groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and elected officials concerned about freedom of expression and the escalation of violence.

The restrictions meant users only got messages and invites from people they know, while keeping spam and flood of unwanted invites at bay.

Here's a cheap and easy method to keep the spiders at bay: keep a spray bottle handy filled with vinegar or peppermint oil - spiders dislike the smell of both.

As much as the twin - turbos try, they can't keep the sweet music of 12 - cylinder fury at bay.

For Song, this accelerated rate of change means the company must constantly reinvent itself to keep the next group of 20 - somethings looking to disrupt the industry at bay.

That makes keeping the disease at bay for at - risk patients a matter of national (and personal) concern.

«Essential oils have anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties and using them in an environment where there are a lot of people can help to keep germs at bay,» says Hawkins.

Regular cash flow projections can keep creditors at bay — and go a long way toward ensuring the good health of your business

Fears that the chief of staff could be on his way out were kept at bay, however, after The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump and Kelly settled on a temporary «truce.»

When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko [in 2014], he found that everyone in the [president's] office used the same login password... Sometimes pressing the spacebar was enough to open a PC... Most computers run on pirated software, and even when licensed programs are used, they can be years out of date and lack security patches to help keep the hackers at bay.

Having a standardized set of policies is crucial to keeping that «Us Versus Them» mentality at bay.

Panic, paranoia and fear of missing out on the next lucrative opportunity have led investors to rain down capital on any firm endeavoring to keep hackers at bay.

To keep the rest of the world at bay and carve out this time for head - down work, McGeown stuck this autoresponder on his email:

This is just another way of saying that severe headwinds are still acting on our economies, years after the crisis, and low interest rates are keeping them at bay.

If there was another way to promote exposure to prominent cryptos by using proven fiat exchanges, cryptocurrencies could take an important step toward the goal of ubiquity by simply skipping over the layers of technical friction that keep many would - be investors at bay.

The transfer of Ahmed al - Darbi to Saudi custody marks the first time the Trump administration has authorized the departure of an inmate from the facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which President Trump has promised to keep open and said could even house new detainees.

A Chapter 11 bankruptcy may keep creditors at bay for a little while but Claire's problems run very deep and are shared by dozens if not hundreds of retail / service chains worldwide.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership trade talks appear to be making progress and could soon put pressure on Canada to make concessions of its own, namely slashing the exorbitant tariff walls that Ottawa uses to keep foreign milk and cheese at bay.

They existed, of course, attackers trying to get into your business and steal information or money, but a security team only needed a few members to keep them at bay.

The QE programs that kept «wolves of financial markets» at bay are continuing to dampen realized volatility

Asian stock markets fell Thursday as weaker - than - expected orders for U.S. durable goods, falling commodities prices and signs of slower economic growth in Britain kept investors at bay.

Now in some ways, the strength of the euro helps Draghi because it keeps the Germans at bay.

To guard against this threat, I proposed a couple of investment restrictions for the JIRA that should keep the wolves at bay (see bullets two and three above).

Now, if the Fed decides to gobble - up still more Treasury or government - agency securities, putting a like sum of fresh reserves at banks» disposal, it can still keep inflation at bay by hiking the IOER enough to bribe banks to hoard the reserves instead of lending them out.

You think he thought of throwing out his girls to keep Boehner and the Republlicans at bay during the shutdown... Actually, that's a little creepy...

You have to all that reading and praying and singing and regurgitating of religious sound bites all the time until the brainwashing kicks in, and then you have to keep doing all that stuff to keep reality at bay.

can find us where we are and push us to find each other, to show someone in our periphery that they are a loved, seen human being of inherent worth, no matter what anyone tells them — this is the kind of small revolution that steadily changes the world and keeps the prospect of a real Gilead at bay.

In more ancient religions, the gods are generally able to effectively justify the right small dose of sacred violence to keep at bay the profane violence (i.e., more random violence of individuals against one another).

Voltaire in Candide went so far as to say that to be engaged fully was the way to keep the three great evils of boredom, vice and need at bay.

I view the belief in god now as some sort of «veil of ignorance» — not stupidity but some sort of mechanism, defense, shield that keeps the fantasy alive inside and keeps reality at bay on the outside.

Where have you seen the tribe of the church keep at bay those who were seeking Jesus?

Much depends on whether such truth is intended as a weapon for keeping new neighbors at bay or as the clearing of a public space for the building of new political communities.

You know, how if the ANC came into power in South Africa, the country would turn into a godless communist stronghold, and thus it was the courage of the Afrikaaners that kept terrorist groups (since the ANC while preaching non-violence had the Umkontho We Sizwe) at bay to preserve freedom?

Usually, we believe that creeds and confessions protect the gospel, defending it against heresy, keeping at bay those who teach a false gospel, and leading people toward central truths of gospel, such as God's holiness, our sinfulness, and the person and work of Jesus Christ.

And since it does all of these things — keeping the enemy at bay, helping us bring light to sinners, showing us how to become more Christlike, the Word of God should be our constant companion.

This freed the workers up to focus just on the task at hand, and not have to also worry about keeping their balance in the blustery winds of San Francisco Bay.

Autistic people spend a good part of their energy keeping the world at bay, holding off intimacy in any form.

Through our creative and imaginative powers, we are able to fulfill this need, making rules about how we will perceive the world and interpret our experience, thereby keeping the forces of confusion at bay.

I revel in the intimacy of the gathering, awash in song, prayer, and silence, all under brilliant nave lights that keep the grey of the December afternoon at bay.

And then, he tried to make a covenant with God, but he wore himself out trying to keep the birds of prey at bay.

And about economic realities — should the USA be so sensible as to re-direct the $ 10.2 million per day it hands the State of Israel (its military) to purchase more bombs, guns and weaponry to keep the Palestinians at bay and locked in prisons, or chased out of Palestine / Israel to so - called «safe havens», then I will readily agree to talk with anyone about economics and affordability of welcoming more strangers and people fleeing their land and homes.

this is the same graham that said that obama is a moslem.even though obama has never participated in any moslem activities.He went further to state that the seed of a father is passed on to the son.I want to know what made the old man changed his mind?talk about hipocrasy.My mother is an jew from nigeria & my father is a baptist, i guess that makes me a baptist.for this reason i keep religion at bay.

Pretty much what I do to keep stress at bay, but if we're taking things to another level of indulgence, I'd say anything water - related: a Japanese onsen bath, hammam, a swim in the sea or even just a plunge in the pool.