Sentence examples for maintained like from inspiring English sources

Even as gender roles are subverted, the dominance of the male is maintained: like so many male artists of his day, Péladan was profoundly misogynist.

"It would be here today if it had been maintained like it was when it opened up," says one of the voices, "but it went down and down and down and down".

The vision — maintained like a fireplace in winter by the strong-willed Srdjan — would require Novak to leave home at age 12 for the Munich academy run by the former top Yugoslav player Niki Pilic, a friend of Gencic's.

That news has helped growers acknowledge, reluctantly, what their antagonists in law enforcement have long maintained: like industrial logging before it, the booming business of marijuana is a threat to forests whose looming dark redwoods preside over vibrant ecosystems.

His plant, behind a tobacco shop that serves also as a gas station and diner, is a modest operation: his production line requires about a dozen workers, and his equipment, imported secondhand from England and carefully maintained like a vintage car engine, dates to the 1980s.

Large numbers of Spirodela plants can be maintained like cell cultures under totally controlled medium and environmental conditions.

We worked so hard to try to maintain, like the Braves.

"There are some of us who maintain, like, not having to put on a façade.

You start well, but a lot of it is quite hard to maintain, like any routine.

There are treasures we want to maintain, like Lunar House and Apollo House [both by Centre Point architect Richard Seifert].

Then comes this phrase: "We do not maintain, like the jealous God of Deuteronomy, that the iniquity of the fathers should be visited on the sons".