Sentence examples for maintain, for instance from inspiring English sources

The French maintain, for instance, certain Catholic public holidays, such as Ascension.

They maintain, for instance, that a governor could put in a sum for road-building and then say a specific company should be used, rendering state contracting laws moot.

There are versions of platonism that maintain, for instance, that all theorems of ZFC are made true by determinate set-theoretical facts, but that there are no set-theoretical facts that make certain statements that are highly independent of ZFC truth-determinate.

However, even Drosophila pink1 deficient mitochondria remain quite functional under most conditions and appear to generate sufficient energy to maintain, for instance, basal neuronal transmission.

These would require member states to put in place or maintain, for instance, an "accreditation" system for legal aid lawyers and continuous professional training to ensure their quality and independence.

She still maintains, for instance — at least in print — that a gentleman "affected by alcohol" doesn't appear in the presence of ladies.

Mr. Hoffman maintained, for instance, that poor intelligence on the radical jihadists and pro-Saddam Hussein loyalists who are killing both Iraqis and American soldiers today "is one of our major problems in Iraq".

Rakesh Jain, professor of tumor biology at Harvard Medical School, maintains, for instance, that Avastin and the other drugs actually do not work by choking off the flow of blood to the tumor.

Although Mr. MacAdams is quite willing to lavish hyperbolic praise on Hecht's screenwriting (he maintains, for instance, that Hecht "perfected two film genres," the gangster film and the screwball comedy), he fails to shed any real light on his collaborations with Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, two directors with whom he repeatedly worked.

Occasionally Bawer acknowledges that the times are changing, as when he notes that some feminists admit feeling "conflicted about abortion," or that some scholars voice dissent from postmodern and countercultural orthodoxies — maintaining, for instance, that there has been progress in American race relations.

Kant maintains, for instance, that it is impossible for a material being to be conscious, even though no logical contradiction exists between material and conscious (Kant 1763 [1902 ], 2: 85–6).