Sentence examples for Maintain against from inspiring English sources

This code, seven years in the making, dictates the amounts of capital that banks must maintain against different types of loans and investments.

But boiled down, the Basel III measures approved on Tuesday focus on strengthening capital, the cushion that banks must maintain against losses.

Now and then they do a few other animal movements, some based on Nijinsky's "Faun" choreography, but mainly they jog, and the urgent pulse they maintain against the slow legato lushness of Debussy's famous prelude creates a deliberately peculiar emphasis.

The Lions scored 20 straight points in the first 15 1/2 minutes of the second half to take a 30-20 lead, which they were easily able to maintain against the shaky Rams, who had won seven straight games.

We show that while greenhouse gas emissions would decrease significantly with the aggressive introduction of cleaner generation technology, long-term reductions are difficult to maintain against ongoing growth in consumption.

He is equally upset by the platitudes in a brochure trying to make a bad disease seem not so bad, by a doctor who pulls no punches in announcing how bad it actually is, by friends who maintain against all reason that Ms. Sontag is going to survive and by doctors who suggest that she should settle for smaller goals than survival.

The majority articulates other adverse consequences which may result from permitting suits to be maintained against public officials.

L. 93 259, § 6(d)(1), substituted in second sentence "maintained against any employer (including a public agency) in any Federal or State court" for "maintained in any court".

I dissent from so much of the judgment in this case as holds that this suit cannot be maintained against the auditor of the state of North Carolina.

The court held that, until one of these preliminary conditions had been satisfied, no action for restitution could be maintained against the carrier.

Portland scored a season-high 37 points in the first quarter to move out to an 11-point lead that they easily maintained against the Pistons.