Sentence examples for maintain and extend from inspiring English sources

The monopolist's principal motivation is using its power to maintain and extend its monopoly, rather than provide the best products at the lowest price.Vigorous competition eliminates these evils.

"His leadership," the president added, "along with that of his colleagues here, and the scholars we will recruit in coming months and years, will maintain and extend Harvard's leadership in this vital area".

People like Livni, he said, represent "countries and interests with which the UK must engage if we are not only to defend our national interest but maintain and extend an influence for good across the globe".

Zee Town's residents will be surrendering the most intimate facts of their being to their employer/landlord via their very use of the service they work every day to maintain and extend.

Ministers at a special "political" meeting of the cabinet are to be asked for proposals on how to maintain and extend Labour's poll lead in the months to come.

The military prowess of the fledgling republic rested upon the wealth of Holland which managed in wartime to maintain and extend its trade to all Europe and, after the turn of the century, even to East Asia.

On page 16 the document identifies "the challenge of encouraging redevelopment and regeneration in the borough whilst maintaining and extending the human scale of the Victorian streetscape".

And as a consequence of their thereby developmentally structured relationship with that which surrounds them, they can acquire more sophisticated interests: in particular, the interest of maintaining and extending that skill.

Local stone ground into its cement lends it a warm reddish glow, and in the 50 years or so since it first went up, it's been tastefully maintained and extended.

For example, while raising tax via increasing National Insurance contributions by a penny (as Labour proposes to do) will cost low earners more, the ongoing commitment by Labour to maintaining and extending tax credits will give money back to low earners.

Terray instituted a series of financial reforms that, had they been maintained and extended by Louis XVI, might have prevented the fiscal crises that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution.