Sentence examples for maintain given from inspiring English sources

This was always going to be a hard distinction to maintain, given Mr Gonzales's role in crafting the policies he was being asked to evaluate as attorney-general.

Some regulators said that a tougher segregation requirement for foreign accounts would have been too costly and complicated to maintain given the technology at the time.

We regularly have to make difficult decisions about the features and products we are able to maintain given the limited resources at our disposal, and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

It was a difficult tactic to maintain, given that officials are typically assessed according to their ability to fulfill quotas set in Beijing, but his seniority gave him latitude to do things his way.

Ethnocentrism and parochialism, as states of mind, were more and more difficult for educated people to maintain given the immense amount of information about or, more important, interest in non-Western peoples, the results of trade and exploratin non-Western

But that attitude has been a little tough to maintain, given the current snail's pace of deal-making: the number of transactions announced in February was the lowest in a month since November 2003, according to Thomson Reuters.

His willingness to fight for the paltry scrap of dignity he has managed to maintain gives me hope that I too will be able to stand tall.

How can the men's loyalty be maintained, given their tribal and sectarian ties, and in many cases their insurgent pasts?

That sort of growth could not be maintained, given that Infosys' U.S. customers are mired in a slump.

The Adaptive Cruise Control is an Advanced Driver Assistance System ADASS) that allows maintaining given headway and speed, according to settings pre-defined by the users.

It is encouraging that the science budget will be maintained, given the critical role that research and innovation will play in the UK's economic recovery over the next decade.