Sentence examples for maintain a powerful from inspiring English sources

The United States must maintain a powerful presence in the Pacific to guard against Chinese rashness, but avoid sabre-rattling or too obviously strengthening Taiwan.

Mr. Rumsfeld and his supporters say that transforming the military will take years, and that in the meantime the United States must maintain a powerful military to deter potential rivals like China and perhaps confront current enemies, including Iraq.

But the Democrats, a cheerful coterie, have learned to embrace small victories, work hard and keep their eyes fixed firmly on their districts, from Southern California to Delaware, where they maintain a powerful role.

During this period Russia was consumed with fierce public debates over whether the country should maintain a powerful Kremlin, embodied in a constitutional presidency, or create a strong parliamentary system as the best way to enshrine and develop multi-party politics.

The world's investors were spooked on Wednesday when US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed may ease up on its controversial bond-buying strategies, which have helped tamp down interest rates and maintain a powerful stock and bond market rally.

But Navy and Marine Corps vessels are essentially floating (and submersible) bases used to maintain a powerful military presence on (and under) the seas.

Wong's style, at its best, maintains a powerful tension between opposing tugs toward illustration and decoration.

The tuition had been paid by a committee at Riverside Church that maintains a powerful amateur basketball program partly underwritten by Ernie Lorch, a wealthy New Yorker.

Putin has increased spending on Russia's nuclear and other arsenals, and the US still maintains a powerful strategic nuclear force.

While he gradually moved away from regular tonality in favor of a richer harmony, he maintained a powerful sense of direction.

On October 8th, the last big jobs report before the mid-term elections showed that the crisis's aftermath maintains a powerful downward pull.