Sentence examples for maintain toward from inspiring English sources

Cold disgust — unless it leads to comedy — is probably not the most productive attitude to maintain toward your leading character.

Accordingly, "the most common rule [regula]" of actions, called the right (ius) or law (lex) of nature, enjoins that humans "must, inasmuch as [they] can, cultivate and maintain toward others a peaceable sociality that is consistent with the native character and end of humankind in general".

But the convention by which exceptional tenderness is maintained toward those sensibilities should be questioned".

What has kept this question hanging in the air is the oppositional stance Eisenman has maintained toward mainstream architecture over the years, and the public's natural inclination to resent what it correctly perceives as a critique of mainstream values.

Being able to tip the balance away from maintaining toward innovating can empower a business to increase its ability to charge through those small windows of opportunity.

She also reminded voters that she was a female leader when she said: "The truth, and everyone knows it, is that Paris has buzzed for months if not years in the political and journalistic milieu about the rather pathological relationship that Mr Strauss-Kahn maintains toward women".

Relevant here are 'emotionologies', defined by Stearns and Stearns (1985) as 'the attitudes or standards that a society... maintains toward basic emotions and their appropriate expression; ways that institutions reflect and encourage these attitudes in human conduct' (p. 813).

Dry mass resorption was calculated from this difference [= (leaf produciton – litter production)/leaf production; Table 6], disregarding leaching and respiratory loss (i.e. the maximum value of cumulative leaf production once attained was maintained toward the end of a plant's life).

The fighting has also raised anxious questions about the Americans' ability to maintain control toward the June 30 date set for Iraq to resume sovereignty under a transitional government.

The two sides have settled a raft of non-core issues in an effort to maintain momentum toward an overall agreement.

In their remaining years, the university continues to cover tuition and fees for those who maintain progress toward graduation and provides housing stipends to those with high grade-point averages.