Sentence examples for maintain do from inspiring English sources

Taken together, the remarks, which Obama aides and surrogates maintain do not express any shift of position, play to one of the main criticisms that Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, has made of his likely rival in the November election.

When she came to one of the passages about veils — which many Muslim feminists maintain do not so much prescribe veils as record that the wives of the Prophet went veiled and in this way were able to recognize one another and to be honored by other women for their distinction — she prayed and fasted and decided to wear one, too.

Those papers, I maintain, do constitute a positive contribution of philosophy to the progress of science -- at least if by "science" you mean an enterprise deeply rooted in the articulation of theory and its relationship with empirical evidence.

These strategies tend to change specific aspects of care that are being measured and/or paid for, and improvements, which are difficult to maintain, do not necessarily extend to other aspects of care.

The Speece cone proved to be effective in delivering enough oxygen to maintain DO concentrations in the MBR of approximately 2 mg L−1 at MLSS concentrations of up to 22 g L−1.

They're calling the approach "maintain, don't gain".

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?

Most consumers, he maintains, don't care whether or not pork is imported.

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.