Sentence examples for maintain an appearance from inspiring English sources

Added State, it appears that "the government's policy towards religion has been to maintain an appearance of tolerance for international audiences, while suppressing internally all non-state-sanctioned religious activities".

When we then ask ministers for details of his lobbying we are told that his constitutional position requires secrecy so as to maintain an appearance of impartiality.

Mr. Pirro openly promoted his wife's political career, but they worked to maintain an appearance of parallel lines of power: he had his business, she had hers.

What matters is what central banks do, not whether they maintain an appearance of disdain toward the messy realities of economic and political life.

Nobody knows whether a new US president will change the position, but for the moment it seems that the current US administration prefers to maintain an appearance of talks – for lack of other options.

Struggling to dress well, to look neat and cheerful was, she feels, a duty, part of an emotional Home Front where women whose lives were daily devastated by loss felt obliged to maintain an appearance of competence and optimism.

They are designed to quiet opponents while maintaining an appearance of technical difficulties, thus avoiding criticism from abroad.

By maintaining an appearance of great strength and great will, Presidents since the time of Kennedy had hoped to avoid the catastrophe for mankind which would occur if the nation's full strength should ever actually be used.

But since the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, whose corrupt and sometimes brutal government maintained an appearance of civic order, Haiti's tourism has withered while the country has been racked by political and social unrest.

It maintains an appearance about as fashionable as the one that you might expect to find across the Straits of Florida in Miami Beach, despite the reality that in Havana there are no stores.

"Given Mr. Fehr's attempt to create the appearance of internal club division on the issue of revenue sharing, I would remind each of you of the importance of maintaining an appearance of support for all of the clubs' bargaining positions in public and private conversations.