Maintain, maintain, maintain.
Chung steadfastly maintained his innocence, asserting that it was the chaos of the events that had prevented him from making an immediate arrest.
Foucault's ideas gave rise in the 1970s and '80s to philosophical postmodernism, a movement characterized by broad epistemological skepticism and ethical subjectivism, a general suspicion of reason, and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power.
The Egyptian ruler knew that he would have difficulty in asserting and maintaining control over northern Syria and Cilicia, which were traditionally oriented more towards Upper Mesopotamia and Iraq.
Furthermore, the Ikhshidids realized that they would have difficulty in asserting and maintaining control over northern Syria and Cilicia, which were traditionally oriented more towards the Jazira and Iraq.
Now gender equally is asserted, maintained by the Russian constitution where all people are proclaimed equal irrespective of their gender, race, nationality political affiliation and so on.
Thus Peirce maintained the position asserted by Boole that mathematics could be used to analyse logic, not the vice versa relationship between the two disciplines that Gottlob Frege was about to put forward for arithmetic, and which Bertrand Russell was optimistically to claim for all mathematics during the 1900s.
Professor Ledenyov, of the Moscow Conservatory, the oldest composer present, serenely maintained the old Soviet line, asserting that "there exists a Russian school of composers" characterized by "a conglomerate of certain features peculiar to this national culture and its folk music".
Trump was describing not just an abdication of global leadership but an America more concerned with asserting its prerogatives than with maintaining long-term friendships.
But U.S.A. Hockey maintained that it did not employ athletes, asserting that it had provided ample opportunities for the women to make livable wages.
We have a president charged with maintaining public health who asserts that the vaccination schedule is a dangerous scam of greedy doctors.
