Sentence examples for act maintain from inspiring English sources

Unilateralism was Sharon's response to the need to act, maintain the initiative and keep creating facts on the ground.

Then there's The Mostly Serious One, Lynette, whose main purpose is to act, maintain the (usually pretty boring) storyline and keep the whole thing remotely realistic.

Indeed, proponents of the act maintain that the yarns spun by war fabulists almost always lead to monetary gain or acclaim.

It's a high-wire act, maintaining a personal and contemporary idiom that can accommodate sentiment and legitimate melody.

APRIL 3, 2000 -- Judge Jackson finds that Microsoft violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, "maintained its monopoly power by anti-competitive means," and tried to monopolize the browser market.

He has also played a delicate geopolitical balancing act, maintaining good relations with the two behemoths on Kazakhstan's borders, China and Russia, and also with the west.

Also worth noting is that the tax on high-cost insurance plans under the act maintains the link between spending and tax benefits and thus does less to improve incentives than the McCain flat tax credit.

Senator Mary Landrieu, the Louisiana Democrat who was lead sponsor of the act, maintained that her state had felt the brunt of the spill, but she arrived at a compromise with other gulf state lawmakers.

In 2014, President Obama signed an amendment to the Height Act, maintaining the current 1 1 setback but allowing occupiable penthouses at no more than one story or 20 feet, which isn't much of an addition.

The Every Student Achieves Act maintains this federal standardized testing schedule, but gives states the power to determine how to evaluate teachers and how to hold schools accountable for their performance.

The second and third acts maintain this consistently high standard, with the Wagnerian influence never far away but never taking the piece over either.