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The bill cleared its first hurdle in the House of Lords earlier this month when it was approved at second reading but its supporters have always maintained it would be touch-and-go whether it would make it into law.

Administration officials said they wanted to rethink the Afghanistan strategy before addressing troop levels and maintained it would be premature for the general to testify.

If the election of Donald Trump were fiction, Atwood maintains, it would be too implausible to satisfy readers.

Despite that distant, negative holler -- "Nah, that'll never happen" -- I maintain it would be delightful if it did.

An earthquake early warning system for California alone will cost about $23 million to build and $12 million annually to operate; if Oregon and Washington are added in, the initial construction cost rises to $38 million, and the yearly cost to maintain it would be $16 million.

"If it was properly maintained it wouldn't be a bother, but now it's beyond just maintenance," Mrs. Plotz said.

VMware has not announced pricing but they have maintained it would not be as low as AWS.

The telecom industry maintained it would not be selling individual lawmakers' browsing histories after several crowdfunding campaigns promising to buy up lawmakers' data raised more than $180,000.

Clifford maintains that "it would be hard to find a route in this country that offers a more extensive immersion in time travel"; and while he knows plenty about the land, and shares this knowledge judiciously, his main goal is to come into contact with a Western way of life that has survived for centuries in the forbidding terrain near the divide.

He went beyond description and explanation to normativity, maintaining that "it would be advisable… to take as the standard of morality, the general good or welfare of the community, rather than the general happiness"(Ibid. 121).

While this sampling would have been functionally equivalent to HGT with in situ gene displacement, in that the gene order would be maintained, it would not have necessarily been mechanistically related to the process by which HGT occurs today.