Sentence examples for maintained a state from inspiring English sources

Ever since the assassination of Sadat, he has maintained a state of emergency to justify a war against religious radicals.

For more than sixty years, Pakistan's military has maintained a state of high alert against its eastern neighbor, India.

He maintained a state of grace, bravery, and doggedness in the face of devastating cancer that took his life all too soon.

A notable exception was Chile, which maintained a state of alert against its neighbour because of a dispute over islands in the Beagle Channel.

BANGKOK -- The Thai government maintained a state of emergency Friday after gunmen attacked and wounded one of the principal leaders of the "yellow shirt" protest movement that brought the country to a political and economic standstill last year.

With typical savvy, he placed himself in the safe hands of Will Ferrell in The Other Guys, and Steve Carrell in Date Night, a film in which he maintained a state of shirtlessness at all times.

Indiana also maintained a state-owned arsenal in Indianapolis that served the Indiana home guard and as a backup supply depot for the Union Army.

The Obama administration, since it announced the normalization of relations with Cuba nearly two years ago, has maintained a stated commitment to ending the embargo.

Look, you know my Pass Notes persona requires me to maintain a state of total ignorance.

A short list of house rules ended with "Please maintain a state of undress at all times".

"This is the generation that has fought the hardest to maintain a state of arrested development," Mr. Kurland said.