Sentence examples for had maintained himself from inspiring English sources

During all this time, Beethoven, like Mozart, had maintained himself without the benefit of an official position but with far greater success insofar as he had no family to support.

They had maintained a feud for years.

Throughout his audience, the boy had maintained a deferential bearing.

He clearly had maintained the right contacts.

But Khamenei himself has maintained a silence.

Since taking office, President Bush has maintained a discreet distance between himself and the Republican Party's fund-raising operations.

For some time, Mr Gephardt has maintained a frosty distance between himself and Mr Clinton, even declaring in 1995 that the House Democrats were "an independent organisation".

ACA critic Avik Roy of Forbes, grasping for a rationale to make Gruber's remarks relevant to the ACA today, snarks that Gruber has revealed something that Roy himself always has maintained: that Obamacare is a "redistribution of wealth from the young and healthy to the old and unhealthy".

According to his data, in that time, 26 players in 37 seasons -- including Bautista himself last year -- have maintained a total O.P.S. (on-base plus slugging percentage) above 1.300 and exceeded the league-average O.P.S. by a combined 150 percent for at least 150 straight plate appearances.

The ECB has maintained its silence, presumably happy for Pietersen to rage himself out.

One critic has maintained that, although Slovo abhorred what was happening he distanced himself from it.