keep the lid on in a sentence

Examples

1. Subsidy growth, we all accept, is necessary to keep the lid on, " de Tray said.
2. Remes Lenicov is betting that the extra cash that can be withdrawn will keep the lid on simmering social tensions.
3. The open access " an explicit challenge to the gatekeepers whose chief role is to keep the lid on ."
4. We were fighting to keep the lid on, to stop the pot boiling over, while the politicians fiddled around.
5. But a difficult task has been made even harder by disagreements over how best to keep the lid on boiling tensions.
6. Even the threat of force from the NATO-led peacekeepers might not be enough to keep the lid on violence.
7. If their bullpen keeps the lid on, chances are an opposing manager eventually will have to bring in an iffy reliever.
8. Bustamante accused Gramm of pressuring Commerce Department officials to keep the lid on the agreement until he could take credit for it.
9. To keep the lid on the story, Henze intimated, Warren plotted with Adamson and Neal Roberts to have Bolles killed.
10. "It's enough to keep the lid on Bosnia so the war doesn't begin again,"