Sentence examples for maintained in working order from inspiring English sources

They clue me in on the repair cafe's ethos, how it is both galvanised and propelled by austere economics and a response to ecological concerns; white goods and the like, and their poisons, need to be recycled, cannibalised, maintained in working order for as long as possible.

The station was maintained in working order and used as a bookshop and ticket office, and the sidings—still intact, although disconnected from the railway line in 1967 —were used for locomotive restoration work.

It is not hard to acquire such missiles, but they are delicate things, and hard to maintain in working order in the tropics.Even so, most military analysts believe that the FARC's leaders—or at least Jorge Briceño (popularly known as "El Mono Jojoy"), its top military commander are not yet persuaded that they cannot win the war.

It relied on complex molecular assemblages to maintain its DNA in working order and to duplicate that DNA when it was time to divide.

Cell replication is a fundamental process that maintains the human body in working order.

Some of this may be appropriate to farm managers' needs, but major structural problems associated with maintaining tractors and machinery (of any type) in working order persist, including a chronic shortage of spare parts, tyres and fuel.

"You back in working order?" Clare says.

Everything was in working order.

Your clock should be in working order.

Make sure everything is in working order.

Once these genes neither enhance nor hinder the organism's survival, the forces of natural selection that once maintained those genes in good working order no longer operate (Nei 2005).