Sentence examples for maintain an identity from inspiring English sources
But the differences are all too evident to groups trying to forge or maintain an identity.
"It's important to maintain an identity rather than being absorbed into this massive ball of London-ness".
I came of age after the civil rights era and Crown Heights, and I constantly struggle to maintain an identity that is firmly rooted in progressive Jewish values.
This may well be the museum quandary of the oughties: how to live with outrageous success and maintain an identity as a museum; how to preserve and possibly improve the experience of art as art for ever larger and more diverse audiences; how to benefit from cutting-edge academic theory without reducing the centrality of what the art critic Dave Hickey calls "the visible arts".
Transnationalism brings to light multiple membership and multiple loyalties – crystallized around dual citizenship – which becomes for immigrants a way to maintain an identity rooted in the home country.
The group sprang up because "it's a part of Chinese culture to try to maintain an identity over and above joining the mainstream," says Kuan-Teh Jeang, a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
That is also the situation faced by eMusic, which has long maintained an identity as the alternative digital retailer, with vast offerings of independent music and low prices.
I wouldn't argue it's my favorite logo, but you can see how it stays within the brand and maintains an identity with the fan base.
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and other successful black plays of the 1950s portrayed the difficulty of blacks maintaining an identity in a society that degraded them.
She was by then an illustrious personage among Britons in the Middle East, yet had maintained an identity apart; she had even published a book of teasing "Baghdad Sketches" (Tauris Parke; $16), making light of the complacent British community there.
This particular substrate still maintains an identity today.
