For example, since joining two years ago Michael Grade's key tenet has been that its billion-pound annual programme budget would be maintained, come hell or high water.
They were maintained come rain or shine, in dictatorship or democracy.
The true foundation of the mutual mistrust, he maintained, came in 1953 when nationalist leader Mohammed Mossadegh was ousted in a U.S.-sponsored coup and replaced with the pro-Western shah.
Evidence that flexibility is a functional characteristic that needs to be maintained came from studies on a family of flexible linkers in the 70 kDa subunit of replication protein A (RPA70), which display conserved dynamic behavior in the face of negligible sequence conservation.
The Jerusalem bombers, Mr Arafat maintains, came from abroad.
The range of musical moods, Cooke maintains, comes from Mahler's "amazing orchestration" which, in the writer's view, defies analysis—"it speaks for itself".
Far more reliable data, Singer maintains, come from satellites and weather balloons (radiosondes), and he states that those data show no warming between 1978 and 1997.
The universities also are under increasing pressure to improve retention and graduation rates — efforts that officials maintain don't come cheaply.
All this from a performer who, Mr. Cowell maintained, truly came out of nowhere.
That remedy, he maintained, could come in the form of a bigger Parks Department budget.
