Sentence examples for maintain the impression from inspiring English sources

Performers are subject to strict rules imposed by their management agencies, including, in many cases, a ban on having boyfriends to maintain the impression among their largely male – and, on occasion, dangerously obsessive – fan base that they are romantically available.

Palmer's power in the Senate has, until now, been vested in his ability to deliver three guaranteed votes to the government – after extracting whatever concessions he's deemed necessary to maintain the impression that he's kept the upper hand.

If only, I thought, I had the ability to maintain the impression that I might one day sleep with these men, without actually sleeping with them, I could get somewhere in my career.

And the exposure helped some critical darlings who have no real backing, like Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, to maintain the impression they are bigger than they really are.

To at least maintain the impression that he is still committed to attacking the bigger problems that plague Japan, like its bloated bureaucracy, its runaway debt and a shaky financial system, he will probably retain Nobuteru Ishihara as minister of administrative reform and let Heizo Takenaka remain banking czar, but remove him as economy minister.

But many families made sure to leave at least one relative on the island, to ensure they would retain title to their belongings.The president has been careful to maintain the impression that he is fully in control of the pace of change.

The focus is not on the promotion of genuine equality but maintaining the impression of it, whatever the cost.

Intent on maintaining the impression of wealth, he attended the bankruptcy proceedings in a rented chauffeur-driven limousine; and within 18 months he had achieved his biggest success.

At a hearing of a house subcommittee, Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, asked BP America's chairman, Lamar McKay, if the company had a financial interest in maintaining the impression of a smaller leak.

The people hauled from the stalls by Dame Edna to take part in Eat Pray Laugh's game show were providing such fruitful feed lines to the antipodean diva that I became convinced they were part of the acting company, although, if they were, they meticulously maintained the impression of awestruck luck when they returned to seeming friends or relatives in the stalls.

Laura Bush has been remarkably successful in maintaining the impression that there are no notable differences of political opinion between her and her husband, largely because she has let it be thought that when she is with her husband political opinions, much less political arguments, are not something upon which she wants to spend a lot of time.