Sentence examples for maintained last from inspiring English sources

Wilpon maintained last season that Bobby Valentine would remain his manager, then was criticized when he changed his mind and fired Valentine after the season.

Interestingly though, had Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC maintained last season's form then this season's competition ladder would roughly mirror population.

It was Dolan who maintained last month that Sather would be both coach and general manager of the Rangers for the remainder of the season.

Downing Street maintained last night that, "each country has to be able to make its appropriate contribution to common defence in Nato and Britain will always do that".

But the government maintained last night that gas cuts were now only affecting 27 factories, and that all these had signed up to discount contracts allowing suppliers to interrupt their supplies in periods of high demand.

"That was a frame-up," he maintained last week.

That, Sukhreet Gabel maintained last week, was not correct.

Renney maintained last week that Kevin Weekes was his No. 1 goaltender.

Yankees catcher Jorge Posada maintained last week that his right shoulder was fine, in spite of his apparent discomfort while throwing in games.

The second episode in the new series of satirical comedy The Thick Of It maintained last week's audience at 1.1 million and 6% in the half hour from 10.10pm on BBC2.

He was a leader of a congressionally created commission that in 2002 recommended changes in government housing programs, though he maintained last week that "the level of interest in housing in Washington is low".