| The irony is that our efforts at self preservation and self protection so often cause precisely what we're seeking to hold at bay. |
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| They hunt in great clouds of minuscule little black beasts that none of the traditional insect repellents seem able to hold at bay. |
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| Each touch of human hands made the struggle more difficult, the effort to hold at bay the anguish that remembering had brought her. |
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| And then the thought that she had managed to hold at bay pushed its way into her mind and threatened to be her undoing. |
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| Agriculture, however, was the key to development, and only greater productivity could hold at bay the spectre of poverty. |
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| The fire is believed to cleanse the community and hold at bay the evil forces of sickness and death. |
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| However much he refuses to perspire, even he cannot hold at bay forever the strains of time and his calling. |
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| The historical success of the civilized community in this continuing effort of the forces of reason to hold at bay the couna terforces of barbarism is no more than marginal. |
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| When you think about all of the benefits that you can get from the miracle fruit that is mangosteen, keep in mind some of the conditions that it is known to hold at bay. |
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| Just as firefighters and E. M. T.s must, a newspaper's first responders in storytelling must hold at bay all the terrible emotions and go about their jobs as professionally as possible. |
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| Like Getafe and Osasuna of La Liga, Barça's domestic league competition, Chelsea found a way to hold at bay and defeat the wonderfully technically gifted visiting side. |
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