But it is sure on fundamentals: It has kept its working democracy; maintained the rule of law; and has, in recent years, scrapped many of the socialist controls that held its economy back.
Throughout his career, Chris Carter, creator of Fox's "X-Files," has kept a low profile, maintaining the sort of mystique that is common to the enigmatic characters of his hit science fiction series.
These duties have kept them maintained in serviceable condition, allowing them to remain operational longer than the majority of their classmates.
Since Sept. 11, the resourceful and enterprising work of journalists has kept the public informed while maintaining the uneasy wartime balance between secrecy and the tradition of openness.
As networks more blatantly favor internal suppliers, Warner, which is not aligned with a major network, has kept its batting average high by maintaining a deep bench of all-star producers.
Most of developed countries have kept on maintaining, updating and modifying their own coding systems for procedures, as well as national adaptations of ICD, in order to manage and to fund their health care delivery.
Maintaining that spirit, she said, has kept Southern Rail on track all these years.
Since the start of the Ukraine crisis, Israel has kept a low profile, attempting to maintain cordial contacts with Moscow, even as the US has criticised Putin's policies – a balancing act analysts believe will become ever harder to pull off.
Over time it has weathered the test of, well, weather: Constant fog, treacherous gusts and seismic movements have kept engineers busy maintaining the vermilion steel structure.
In 1999, the State Police learned that Mr. Wong was planning a bank robbery and was a crack addict, information that in New York City, with its renewal strictures, would almost certainly have kept him from maintaining a gun permit when he would have been scheduled for re-evaluation the next year.
