Sentence examples for barely maintaining from inspiring English sources

She looks on, tight-lipped, barely maintaining her composure as Peter makes a fool of himself.

He struggled off and on in Europe, gaining experience but barely maintaining his exempt status.

Along with the last century's immigrants and a wave of "trendsetters," there are lower-income tenants, barely maintaining their homes amid so-called neighborhood revitalization.

Increased wind shear caused the storm to weaken shortly thereafter, with Erika barely maintaining tropical storm-status by September 2.

Waters and Gilmour worked independently; however, Gilmour began to feel the strain, sometimes barely maintaining his composure.

They would occasionally meet to discuss the work that had been completed, and while this method was not in itself unusual, Gilmour began to feel the strain, sometimes barely maintaining his composure.

Cubans without government backing, however, can barely maintain their buildings.

Long Island, too, has barely maintained its reserve levels.

"It actually worked beautifully, even on primitive 2G networks that can barely maintain a voice call any more".

"Despite the discounts, sales did not increase, so that means they shed profit to just barely maintain their market position," said Tom Kang of Counterpoint Research.

Germany and France have balked at committing any more forces to a war that has so little public support that they can barely maintain current troop levels.