Sentence examples for first maintain from inspiring English sources

An effective strategy should be built around eight principles: First, maintain America's ability to strike Al Qaeda with surprise, speed and violence.

They had two main suggestions: First, maintain a balanced portfolio combining high-risk, high-reward projects with safer, more incremental work.

First, maintain all piping and other treatment unit equipment properly, along with monitoring the conditions within the pond to provide enclosure of treated waste without exposure to the external environment or the formation of residuals.

To perform such measurements, we first maintain (P_text{{u}}) is at a constant pressure of 0.2 MPa using a gas bottle for at least 1 h; this allows for complete pore fluid saturation of the sample.

Trump's proposed response to these five weaknesses was to put "America First," maintain maximum flexibility in how the US would define and carry out its foreign policy rather than be bound by fixed commitments, only use military force when no other alternative was available and rely on "sharp bargaining/deal making" to advance American interests.

We speculate that axons contain a large number of mitochondria, which make them more sensitive to chronic ischemia, which triggers autophagy to first maintain intracellular homeostasis.

Ms. Armstrong at first maintained that she was not familiar with the apartment complex.

When Saladin resumed war against the kingdom, Raymond at first maintained a separate truce.

First, maintaining the fiction that the Russian troops in South Ossetia were peacekeepers was risky under Yeltsin but quite insane under Putin.

Mr. McGreevey at first maintained that the cost of the trip amounted to $57,000 but later acknowledged that the cost was $70,000.

At first maintaining a good front, Penny breaks down: her brother Roger is arriving from upstate to go with her to a play written by their brother Tom.