1.   I have had a Chinese hair-cut which makes me look slightly less like a fierce western barbarian to Chinese eyes, but I have kept my beard.

2.   Her husband was arrested for keeping his beard too short.

3.   Like all Afghan men at the time, they had to keep their beards long.

4.   The question was whether he would keep the beard now that the recess was over.

5.   Thanks to modern technology, an Orthodox rabbi sentenced to prison was photographed clean-shaven and still got to keep his beard.