Sentence examples for maintained almost from inspiring English sources

Analysts say he has maintained almost feudal control through a mix of favors and violence.

NovaStar was also a favorite in online chat rooms, and its defenders in those forums maintained almost to the end that a turnaround was nigh.

Lionel Messi and company are exceptional players who have maintained almost unbelievable standards through their peak years, but Madrid was able to defeat them on merit.

Buildings, topography, and rocks may be maintained almost the same for substantial periods of time, but vegetation changes constantly, with both seasonal adjustments and annual growth.

It has nevertheless maintained almost 40 percent of its investment portfolio in banks, shifting toward lenders that it sees as capturing growth in emerging markets.

Less important outside India but much respected in India itself, especially in the south, was Ramana Maharshi, a Tamil mystic who maintained almost complete silence.

"It is, I would maintain, almost as difficult to read a novel well as to write one well".

He insists on maintaining almost physical touch with every department of the Army's increasingly complex organization.

The organisation maintains almost 100 stations monitoring the tell-tale seismic activity that occurs with a nuclear test.

American Airlines is the only major United States carrier that still maintains almost all of its fleet in its own United States-based facilities.

But Biutiful – Iñarritu's first film without writer Guillermo Arriaga – is a sombre drag, maintaining almost unbroken glumness as it heaps woe after woe upon its hero.