Sentence examples for maintain did from inspiring English sources
It was 1964 and J Edgar Hoover's FBI obviously had a reputation to maintain – did it want to be associated with a fictional spy who has "beautiful women presenting themselves to him in scanty attire"?
Resurrection, they maintain, does not simply mean going to heaven or life after death.
Those decisions were very clear at certain points: how are we going to maintain doing this?
Only when foreign pressure became overwhelming and the "bribes" irresistible, he maintains, did Israel retreat.
American embargoes, he maintained, did not apply to companies based in Switzerland.
Second, complications whereby the implant could be maintained did not alter the final outcome results.
Most consumers, he maintains, don't care whether or not pork is imported.
The former, Justice Alito maintained, does not violate reasonable expectations of privacy; the latter does.
The anti-Trump right, he maintained, doesn't "have to give up their politics" to oppose the president.
They're calling the approach "maintain, don't gain".
