I'd rather maintain

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"I'd rather maintain a constant cushion of capital in good times and bad," she says.The accord does maintain minimum capital requirements and allows plenty of scope for fine-tuning.

You never find a voice in an article on the subject making a reasoned case for retaining the status quo; we just don't want to deal with it, would rather maintain the fantasy that the bereaved will find comfort in the integrity of a corpse, in their right to burn a decaying liver.

Despite graduating from Central Saint Martins, she is wary of running into a sea of shows and "young London designer" buzz; instead, she'd rather maintain control over her outreach and production, which she hopes to bring entirely in-house one day, with intimate presentations and appointments to promote it during fashion week.

Companies have been working on the project of automation for decades, and in some ways, this makes us squeamish: Our identities are wrapped up in the type of work we do, and we'd rather maintain our livelihoods than be replaced by a robot.

What is often referred to as the peace premium is something Northern Ireland would rather maintain.

Employers, for their own strategic reasons, would rather maintain a highly stratified workforce, with a highly skilled, dependable core supplemented by a disposable layer.

The Kurds would rather maintain their own military, called the peshmerga, and want a clause in the transitional constitution requiring regional approval for any entry of Iraqi armed forces into Kurdish areas.

They would rather maintain the existing system, regarding CRS as second-class citizens and treating them as commodities.

"Selling a profitable division just to have more predictability is not in the best interest of shareholders long-term," he went on, adding that he would "rather maintain unpredictability but high profitability".

Whether it is fear of rejection or of being made the fool, most of us would rather maintain order and deflect.

Still, most of the citizens seem to agree with our narrator, who maintains, "I'd rather eat unhealthy meat than healthy turnips".