Sentence examples for maintained its role from inspiring English sources

While the United States maintained its role as the world's leading supplier of weapons, officials nonetheless saw the value of its arms trade sharply decline in 2009.

PARIS — Saudi Arabia has maintained its role this year as the world's oil producer of last resort, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 — The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday.

Based on multivariate analysis only LDH level maintained its role as a pretherapeutic parameter for survival (P=0.0058).

At the same time, BULOG maintained its role in stabilizing prices, but no longer had the budgetary resources needed to intervene in the market, either on a seasonal basis or to prevent prices from falling towards the world price plus tariff.

Daimler has said it would maintain its role as Germany's representative in EADS, one of Europe's largest military contractors and the maker of Airbus aircraft.

It is desperate to maintain its role at the centre of China's capital markets at a time when its two mainland rivals, Shanghai and Shenzhen, are taking their own tentative steps towards opening up.

And he'd probably also encourage Apple to seriously consider acquiring Tesla so that it can continue to maintain its role as the biggest bang disruptor of them all.

However, philanthropy needs to maintain its role in development as it's a response to social problems that cannot be always addressed within markets.

Since the Global Fund clearly states in its mission that it is a financing mechanism rather than an implementing institution, it is essential that the Global Fund maintain its role in promoting financial accountability and not develop its in-house HTA capacity.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood reacted to the Cairo protests with statements that illustrated its need to rein in the popular anger while maintaining its role as the mainstream voice of Islam: it implicitly criticized the violence of the embassy attack while calling for peaceful nationwide protests against the video on Friday.