Sentence examples for maintain in office from inspiring English sources

Thus, the French system of government is not presidential, because the president cannot maintain in office a cabinet that is opposed by a legislative majority.

Despite the apparent sympathy of the Kaiser for the present Chancellor, whom he would maintain in office if possible, it is likely enough that the Imperial will may be overruled by the impetuous Junker elements.

It's a government that is, in reality, weak and divided – maintained in office not by its own strength, but the weakness of the opposition, particularly at the top of the trade unions.

NGOs enjoy mixed success in their political activities, partly because governments rarely rely on these groups to maintain themselves in office.

Imagine: the Soviets would intervene militarily and/or diplomatically to maintain Nixon in office?

It is true we did lose some of the broad constituency that had maintained us in office.

So maybe the militant commitment to Canadian free trade you maintained while in office is imploding under the weight of a maniac billionaire president determined to crush Ottawa under its economic weight.

The standards he maintains in his university office apply equally at NorthPark, he said.

The tactics of Weiss's scouts and the relationships maintained in the front office demonstrated the team's institutionalized discrimination.

She moved to a newly acquired house in New Haven, Connecticut, although she continued to maintain her office in New York and commuted there daily.

By the time the paper was folded into The Journal News in 1998, it had long ceased to maintain an office in Port Chester.