Citibank and other United States banks, they maintain, made guarantees that they knew were impossible to keep, and that constitutes fraud.
The finance was not there at that time to make any major signings, but we have done what was required of us by moving out 12 players and trimming the wage bill and, I still maintain, made progress on the field as well.
Small, agile, versatile and durable, jeeps were easy to deploy, easy to operate and easy to maintain, making them perhaps the Allies' most important battlefield equipment.
But such systems are expensive and time-consuming to install and maintain, making cellphones an attractive alternative, especially for earthquake-prone countries in the developing world.
Furthermore, automated counters are expensive, bulky and costly to maintain making them unsuitable as a point of care diagnostic tool.
However, Old World and hominoid primates are long-lived and costly to maintain, making the use of these primates in longitudinal research problematic from both scientific and financial perspectives.
He also views the rise of Trump as a reaction to political correctness, which has, he maintains, made people feel that they can't express themselves.
As the week dragged on, however, and the terror threat abated, the legal discussions intensified, and their pace and tenor, the aides maintained, made it clear that the dispute was growing more ominous.
Such a move, she maintained, made it more difficult for Sinn Fein to contemplate a meeting with the Queen when she visits Stormont at the end of the month.
His use of swear words which he did not deny did not, he maintained, make his actions aggressive, obscene, inappropriate or unprofessional.
This realm, he maintained, makes particular things intelligible by accounting for their common natures: a thing is a horse, for example, by virtue of the fact that it shares in, or imitates, the Form of "Horse".
