Sentence examples for have maintained on from inspiring English sources

Newer political songs -- some written by members of the band they have maintained on and off since 1985 -- were soberly self-righteous, no longer laughing at their targets.

Presumably it's this that Cameron is responding to; as a personification of the unshakable grip the public school/Oxbridge contingent have maintained on these upper echelons, he surely can't be daft enough to claim to empathise with all the machine-gunning.

Whitmar sought an injunction against ex-employees who used the company's LinkedIn group contacts, which one of the employees had maintained on behalf of the company, to market the launch of a rival business.

It signalled that the implacable hold the Democrats had maintained on the south since the civil war was starting to crumble.

Arab diplomats said they also resent the tight grip that Israel has maintained on the Palestinian territories during the peace talks.

This was partly because people stopped demonstrating and smoking dope, and started reading the New York Times — and the Village Voice, which had maintained, on the whole, a skeptical detachment from the hippies and the radical left.

His cordiality puzzled those who had long thought of Mr. Kohl as staunchly anti-Communist, and long after East Germany disappeared, he successfully resisted attempts to open secret files that Communist intelligence had maintained on his activities.

Within hours, the KMT's central committee dropped the bar it had maintained on nominating indicted criminals as candidates, and decided to urge Mr Ma to stay on as chairman.

Trump has maintained on the campaign trail that he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning.

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple ordered Dakota Access Pipeline protesters Monday to immediately evacuate the main camp they've maintained on federal land for months because of "severe winter weather".

Since then, though, Tillerson and others in the Administration have maintained pressure on the Chinese.