The music stayed somber and steadfast, determinedly maintaining its glum tone.
He maintained his determinedly nonaligned posture Sunday, saying he planned to think over his situation for several weeks, quashing any suggestion that he was leaning in any direction.
"Lincoln Heights" determinedly tries to maintain a balance, and refuses to drop the fluffy stuff or the cops-and-robbers stuff.
And he is maintaining the determinedly nationalist tone he adopted on the campaign trail, a tactic designed to steal votes from the Nationalist Action Party (MHP).
Contribute with Guardian Witness In the winter of 1916 the conscientious objector Harry Millward wrote to his wife Lizzie, maintaining a determinedly jaunty tone.
But what they produced together changed American musical theater, enlarging its horizons while maintaining a sturdy, optimistic and determinedly wholesome vision of American life and values.
Containing all the trademark Timbaland tics - daringly minimal instrumentation, determinedly abstract sound, vague Eastern influence, a rap from the producer - SexyBack is certainly, as Mosley maintains, "a risk".
Yacht racing in the United States has been the most determinedly amateur of sports and, especially in the major classes, the most democratic: Full-blown ocean racing is open to absolutely everyone able to spare the $500,000 to $1 million a year it takes to build, outfit and maintain one of the 80-foot maxi boats.
Amid all these challenges, Eleiwa is determinedly "working for our future generation" – one which, with 18,000 graduates every year hinting for a handful of jobs, has been left "with no hope … We're maintaining good service standards that could one day be the basis of our competition with the region and the world".
Maintain, maintain, maintain.
