Sentence examples for debate to maintain from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, Salter advised McCain before the first debate to maintain, one person privy to the sessions put it, "a very generous patience with Obama — in terms of, 'I'm sure if he understood....' " "The object wasn't to appear condescending at all — really, the opposite," an adviser said of Salter's tactic, which judging by the postdebate polls seemed to backfire.

The Democrats must be sure, in the forthcoming debate, to maintain message discipline.

As the House Foreign Affairs Committee debated whether to maintain the funding, David Rivera, a Republican from Florida, called the OAS "an enemy of the US and an enemy to the interests of freedom and security".

Economic analysts have sometimes defined the concept in terms of nondeclining per capita income flows over time and debated how to maintain the capital endowments needed to sustain those income flows.

For several years now, German economic reform has been largely paralyzed as the country debates whether to maintain its comprehensive welfare system or accept a more unfettered market economy along American lines.

For example, two secure stores of smallpox exist (one in the US and one in Russia) that experts have long debated whether to maintain or eliminate.

Critics claim it stifles public debate and helps to maintain the status quo.

Meanwhile, the little magazines that once set the tempo of debate have struggled to maintain their influence in the age of social media.

Perhaps one lesson we could learn from the indy debate would be to maintain the demand for hope and higher standards that plans for a new status quo can produce.

During the long summer of debate over how to maintain current military readiness while preparing for future threats, Mr. Rumsfeld wanted to play long ball, but he was playing in a town that measured the speed and spin of every pitch and tallied hits and errors after every inning -- and was wholly unforgiving of any errors.

Today, the same four perspectives are present in debates about how to maintain global food security in light of population growth, high energy prices and climate change.