That is, if labour can be kept down, and the labourer can be prevented from having a choice of employers, then the system may be maintained, but not otherwise.
The plants should never flag for want of water, and green fly must be kept down by syringing.
Green fly is very partial to the Verbena, especially while in pots; it must be kept down, or the seedlings will make no progress.
In a very backward state of society, like that of Europe in the middle ages, and many parts of Asia at present, population is kept downby actual starvation.
Wherever population is not kept down by the prudence either of individuals or of the state, it is kept down by starvation or disease.
In three years a good crop should be secured, if the weeds and wild growth are kept down.
The aphis, or green plant louse, appears under all conditions, and must be kept down by syringing with tobacco-tea or fumigation with tobacco stems.
The dwarf variety can be kept downto a height of 6 inches to a foot for any number of years.
Weeds may be kept down by cutting them off, as in walks and often in flower-beds, rather than by rooting them out.
The aphis, or green plant louse, appears under all conditions, and must be kept down by the use of some of the tobacco preparations (several of which are on the market).
Inflammatory action, should it threaten, must be kept down, but bleeding and purging are to be employed with caution.
Inflammation is to be kept down by the usual means, and abscesses, if they form, must be early evacuated.
The sun is not so powerful but the heat can be kept down by the air given from above.
In a border from four to six feet, they ought never to exceed four feet at the back of the border, and in front, one foot, after being pruned; they can be kept down by the above method.
There are several gold spangles used, kept down by a small piece of gold guimp.
Strips of flat metal cut into shapes and kept down by small stitches at regular intervals.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kept down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
