Translation for "held in check" to spanish

Held in check

• mantenido bajo control

Translation examples

mantenido bajo control

It is held in check by the frontal lobes and the temporal lobes -- the centers of self-control.
Está mantenida bajo control por los lóbulos frontales y temporales... los centros del autocontrol.

the artist implied, would have been the dominant note of his life, had it not been held in check by a sentiment of exalted chivalry, and by the sense that a nature of such emotional intensity as his must always be "ridden on the curb."
La «Pasión», insinuaba el artista, habría sido la nota dominante de su vida si no la hubiera mantenido bajo control un exaltado sentido de la caballerosidad y la intuición de que una naturaleza de tanta intensidad emocional como la suya debía «refrenarse» en todo momento.