Sentence examples for it has long maintained from inspiring English sources

It has long maintained that its customer service sets it apart from its competitors.

The band may be best known for its 1980 hit, "Whip It," but it has long maintained a sardonic vision and a quirky aesthetic that make it a tirelessly entertaining live act.

It has long maintained a political office in Syria, but it has denied having a "military presence" there.

It has long maintained good relations with the Indian government, pledging much of its vast hydroelectric power potential to its large, powerful, energy-hungry neighbor.

Although Japan has no direct investment here, it has long maintained licensing agreements with South African companies producing such vehicles as Toyota and Nissan.

The campaign needs the funds not only for television ads that are bombarding swing state voters, but to continue to fund an extensive get-out-the-vote effort it has long maintained would prove more significant on election day, Nov. 6.

The alacrity with which the Syrian government is meeting the Security Council's timetable for elimination of its macabre arsenal--one it had long maintained as an essential deterrent against Israeli nuclear attack--suggests how much Damascus fears wide-ranging American air strikes that could obliterate its military edge over insurgents.

It had long maintained that South Korea would not be involved in any peace negotiation because the signers of the 1953 armistice were North Korea, China and the United Nations force led by the United States.

When it comes to advertising, Facebook has long maintained that it can freely use a person's name, photo, comments and other information in advertising as long as it shows the ad only to people who already have rights to see the underlying information.

One way is by giving it to Burton, who has long maintained a head-turning aplomb as he presents each new theatrical entertainment.

The firm says it fired him in 1998 for expense account abuses; he has long maintained it was because nude pictures of him appeared in gay magazines, among other things.