" It was my way of keeping at bay the dreaded: "Mr.
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Walls encase the metropolis, keeping at bay undocumented people and an unruly environment.
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Investors have also been skittish about the usually sought-after technology stocks, keeping at bay the so-called unicorns, or start-ups valued at more than $1 billion.
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Propaganda out of Pyongyang makes clear that North Korea views nuclear weapons as essential to keeping at bay U.S. and South Korean forces it says are intent on its destruction.
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But while McConaughey's Man in Black isn't truly menacing so much as oozing snake oil, the glimpses we get of the monsters the Tower is keeping at bay are creepy and fun.
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The idea behind this deep freeze is to slow the aging process, which will theoretically retain more of the whiskey's fruit flavors while keeping at bay the unpleasant woody notes associated with over-aged bourbon.
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When she finally had a chance to kill Reynard in season two's next-to-last episode, she chose to turn him over to the godly justice system represented by his mother — and only then did Julia truly begin to open up and feel the devastation she'd been keeping at bay for so long.
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In times of peace the Buhturids maintained working relations with the Crusaders. The Buhturids' peak of power occurred under the Circassian Mamluk sultan Barquq (), whom they supported during his seizure of power from his Turkic predecessors. The Buhturids grew their wealth through commercial enterprises, exporting silk, olive oil and soap to Mamluk officials in Egypt from Beirut and attaining the governorship of Beirut twice, in the 1420s and 1490s–1500s. They maintained the respect of the peasants of the Gharb for safeguarding their interests against government measures, promoting agriculture and keeping at bay their local rivals, the Turkmen emirs of the Keserwan.
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He had strong negative feelings towards Muslims in general and the "Persians" in particular, and held in contempt everything related to Iran. A prime example of tactics and attitude were shown in the conquest of Ganja in early 1804. As added by Cronin, Tsitsianov's conquest of Ganja, which reduced the city to rubble and resulted in the murder of its governor, Javad Khan, his son, and many of the city's defenders and civilian population, was no less brutal and murderous than Agha Mohammad Khan's sack of Tiflis in 1795. Though many resented his policies, Tsitsianov's rule brought some of the much needed stability for Georgians, particularly in terms of keeping at bay the previously rampant incursions and marauding by Lezgian mountaineers.
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He is said to have spent £500 on constructing a timber horse, its head capable of seating twelve men, but it was wrecked by a storm before it was completed, and Bushnell was too disillusioned to continue with the project, although two vintners, who had contracted to use the horse as a drinking-booth, offered to pay for its reconstruction. Following his death in 1701, his widow Mary and his sons continued to live in his half-finished house near Hyde Park, London after his death, keeping at bay strangers curious to see his remaining sculptures, and by degrees destroying them. A monument, probably his last, is in the North Chapel of St. Andrews Church, Great Billing in Northampton. it is possible that this was moved here unfinished following his death.
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