Sentence examples for maintained against from inspiring English sources

The majority articulates other adverse consequences which may result from permitting suits to be maintained against public officials.

I dissent from so much of the judgment in this case as holds that this suit cannot be maintained against the auditor of the state of North Carolina.

The court held that, until one of these preliminary conditions had been satisfied, no action for restitution could be maintained against the carrier.

Portland scored a season-high 37 points in the first quarter to move out to an 11-point lead that they easily maintained against the Pistons.

The Kremlin maintained, against all evidence, that Russia's military campaign vigorously targeted ISIS, with the primary intention of destroying that group.

Strauss advocated a close exegesis of those texts and maintained, against historical relativism, that great works of philosophy can provide the careful reader with universal and eternal truths.

This code, seven years in the making, dictates the amounts of capital that banks must maintain against different types of loans and investments.

But boiled down, the Basel III measures approved on Tuesday focus on strengthening capital, the cushion that banks must maintain against losses.

The Lions scored 20 straight points in the first 15 1/2 minutes of the second half to take a 30-20 lead, which they were easily able to maintain against the shaky Rams, who had won seven straight games.

It seems there is a genetic correlation between yield and plant height, cultivated plants with water stress resistance is able to maintain against reduced plant height.

The identity theory maintains, against this, that at least some truth-bearers are not made true by, but are identical with, facts.