Indian students maintain a difficult balance between young, forward-thinking individualism and observing the more traditional social normsof strict family and generational structures.
In choosing a chief financial officer, Shell had to maintain a difficult balance between going outside the company but also making sure it hired someone who could understand the business, said Tim Rees, fund manager with Insight Investment in London, which owns shares of Shell Transport and Trading, one of the two publicly traded companies that makes up the group.
Mr. Liddy maintains a difficult relationship with Mr. Greenberg, who remains the company's largest shareholder after the government, and they are at odds on a strategy for the company.
Musharraf, who came to power in 1999, has maintained a difficult and domestically unpopular alliance with Washington since 2001 and has deployed unprecedented numbers of troops on bloody operations to capture senior al-Qaeda figures.
He maintains a difficult realtionship with Teodora Jofre, who claims she was not aware he was the child of desaparecidos, believing he was the illegitimate child of one of her husband's comrades.
Further still, Jewish animator Art Babbitt, who maintained a "difficult relationship" with Disney throughout his career, claimed to have seen Disney and his lawyer, Gunther Lessing, attending meetings of pro-Nazi organisation the German American Bund in the late 1930s.
From 1554, Marie of Guise formally took over the regency, maintaining a difficult position, partly by giving limited toleration to Protestant dissent and attempting to diffuse resentment over the continued presence of French troops.
As a result, Mr. Hun Sen — who maintains a difficult-to-defeat political machine — faces what analysts describe as a formidable contest, tougher than the governing party is accustomed to and one that features starkly competing political priorities.
Certain drummers in Basel, Switzerland, maintain a particularly difficult traditional playing technique.
Developers of residential properties must maintain a particularly difficult balance between conceding to potential homeowners' demands and staying true to their environmental vision.
Even if it turns out that humans do benefit, very few people are likely to be able to maintain such a difficult diet.
