Sentence examples for laboring to maintain from inspiring English sources

"There were chunks of blood like red meat on the walls," he recalled, laboring to maintain his poise.

Rather than laboring to maintain and increase American dominance, Obama, says D'Souza, is busy leveling the playing field so that no nation will have control of the world's resources and be in a position to call the tune.

As a feature, "Panic," which opens today at the Angelika Film Center, is very close to Alex in temperament: calm and even-tempered but white-knuckled from laboring to maintain that veneer of sanity.

For Republican strategists laboring to maintain control of Congress, she is the personification of liberal lunacy, an Armani-clad elitist who will help push lawmakers toward an agenda of multicultural, tax-raising appeasement.

People who labored to maintain pristine planting schemes during the early weeks of the drought returned after vacations to find little that was not dried and desolate.

People who labored to maintain pristine planting schemes in the early weeks of the drought returned after vacations to find little that was not dried and desolate.

At the same time, many Americans have found that the stream of immigrants has provided them with affordable gardeners, nannies, housekeepers -- even manicurists "Americans rely very much on low-cost immigrant labor to maintain their living standards, which means everything from lawn care to inexpensive agricultural production to the construction business," Mr. Papademetriou said.

"In a way, Villa Necchi makes me think of a ship of fools — it was completed right before World War II, when people still thought naïvely that everything was going to be all right and believed in this idea of conquering the future, except that the future was about constant labor to maintain a select few," Guadagnino says.

Likewise, tail-enders have an incentive to not provide labor to maintain the system if they do not receive water.

The social insects are typified by the presence of a sterile working class (we even call them "workers") that labor to maintain the nest or hive, tend to the young, collect food and fight off threats (another working class is called "soldiers").

For the most part, cults are keenly and obsessively aware of their public persona and consciously labor to maintain a positive image.