"keep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Most times, people try to keep protesters from coming," the mayor said, "and they certainly don't go out of their way to accommodate them."
- Critics see a calculated strategy, intended to keep disruptive protesters off the streets.
- The police said it had proved wholly successful in keeping anti-abortion protesters at bay.
- Witnesses said that in some instances the police kept protesters trapped and unable to flee while the men from the buses beat them.
- Around 50 tanks have been deployed on the streets to keep protesters in check.
- The court upheld a buffer zone of about 36 feet around the clinic that kept protesters away from the entrance and parking lot.
- He denied that the long holding time was a deliberate tactic to keep protesters behind bars until the convention ends.
- Soldiers have been shooting live rounds to keep protesters at a distance as one government minister said the operation to "seal the area" would continue.
- Almost no effort was made by the 300 officers on duty to keep protesters from breaking police barricades to rush the steps of City Hall.
- Only around the palace did the police say that they were under strict orders to keep protesters at bay.
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