This factor alone should easily keep a lid on any type of demand related inflationary pressure.
To keep a lid on things, my doctor prescribes a mood stabiliser and an antipsychotic, daily.
"If you can't keep a lid on it, don't go to it, " Challenger advises.
Massachusetts, with 550, 000 uninsured residents, is doing its best to keep a lid on taxes.
The measure is designed to keep a lid on bond yields and borrowing costs.
City managers will deploy LED street lights to check traffic conditions and keep a lid on municipal expenses.
The problem with this largesse is that it consumes so much cash flow to keep a lid on dilution.
The measures Mr Berlusconi presented in Brussels, if fully implemented, will keep a lid on those debts this year.
The council said the cash would be used to improve front-line services and "keep a lid" on future tax rises.
For example, it wants to limit funds to a certain size, and to keep a lid on their investment abroad.
But with a cabinet as factious as Lebanon's, not even this cosy carve-up could keep a lid on controversial programmes.
Of course, Apple isn't the only company these days that can't seem to keep a lid on their movie download plans.
"The Grand Master is trying to keep a lid on things, so if we do things, we do them peacefully, " he said.
Employers and trade unions co-operated to keep a lid on labour costs.
Such low rates will also keep a lid on short-term bond yields.
Some bond strategists think sluggish global economies and strong demand for income will keep a lid on bond yields for a long time.
That puts new pressure on the European Central Bank, whose role is to keep a lid on eurozone inflation whilst supporting economic growth.
With China's recovery well advanced, the central bank is keen to get a grip on bank lending and keep a lid on inflationary pressures.
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Investment is healthy, which should help keep a lid on inflation.
Ford skeptics worry that problems in Europe, where the economy has depressed sales and unions have made cost cutting difficult, will keep a lid on profits.
Earlier Friday, Egypt's military rulers said they won't reverse their widely deplored constitutional and judicial changes and warned politicians to keep a lid on election-related unrest.
Additionally, tightening policies in China and India will keep a lid on inflationary pressures in the US as those countries seek to spur internal consumption and demand.
Because trillions of dollars of loans based on floating Libor rates ratcheting higher would cause borrowers to default, banks needed to keep a lid on rising rates.
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This being Forbes, though, I will do my very best to keep a lid on the aggrieved moralizing and instead strive to bring real data into the discussion.
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Analysts say high inventory will keep a lid on prices in the coming months but these will pick up in 2013 unless policy makers roll out tougher curbs.
Fortunately, rising prices tend to keep a lid on complaints.
Thus if a currency seems significantly undervalued, argues the report, a central bank should raise interest rates by more than strictly necessary to keep a lid on future inflation.
If the Fed continues to keep a lid on the growth of nominal incomes, slow wage growth may eventually bring real wages down to a level required for full employment.
Medicare and private health plans like WellPoint, UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna were unable to keep a lid on spending, and health insurance premiums rose at about the same 6% rate.
And in a bid to keep a lid on electricity prices, the central government in December ordered coal miners to not raise asking prices in their annual contracts with power stations.
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