In this case, a larger store of bone lead accumulated over a prolonged period (i.e., years) of exposure to elevated environmental lead levels could have maintained elevated blood lead levels that only very slowly decreased over time once the exposures were controlled.
A well-thought out move to a European club could have maintained his progress.
But they could have maintained his failing kidneys by putting him on dialysis.
The problem is everyone has such high caseloads, but if he'd been seen perhaps he could have maintained his ability to live independently.
But to historians like David Reynolds of Cambridge University, the revisionists' belief that Britain could have maintained any kind of working settlement with a dominant Germany is ridiculous.
It is thought they were used for fortifications, homes and ceremonies, and could have maintained a population of 60,000 – more people than in many medieval European cities.
If Capriati, the defending champion, could have summoned the nerve Serena Williams revealed on the critical points, if she could have maintained her unabashed rips at every ball into the third set, she might have prevented her 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 exit.
He won again at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, then did stretching exercises after he crossed the finish line as if to show that he could have maintained the pace long beyond the marathon distance of 26.2 miles.
By April 1 , 1917 the Allies had exhausted their means of paying for essential supplies from the United States, and it is difficult to see how they could have maintained the war effort if the United States had remained neutral.
The ensemble could have maintained the Parisian theme and still felt tighter by including something of Stravinsky's or, most naturally, the Prokofiev work that inspired Mr. Shepherd's instrumentation.
