Many health care providers left Zimbabwe to work abroad, and those that remain do not always have access to the medicine and other supplies they need; in addition, many health care facilities and pieces of medical equipment have not been maintained, making it difficult to treat even common illnesses and injuries.
Shipping records were inadequately maintained, making it difficult to accurately account for the individual shipments of rodents.
A level of practicality was still maintained, making the protocol useful in a clinical setting when compared to more elaborate modifications made in past studies [ 6, 31].
His use of swear words which he did not deny did not, he maintained, make his actions aggressive, obscene, inappropriate or unprofessional.
As the week dragged on, however, and the terror threat abated, the legal discussions intensified, and their pace and tenor, the aides maintained, made it clear that the dispute was growing more ominous.
This realm, he maintained, makes particular things intelligible by accounting for their common natures: a thing is a horse, for example, by virtue of the fact that it shares in, or imitates, the Form of "Horse".
Such a move, she maintained, made it more difficult for Sinn Fein to contemplate a meeting with the Queen when she visits Stormont at the end of the month.
Small, agile, versatile and durable, jeeps were easy to deploy, easy to operate and easy to maintain, making them perhaps the Allies' most important battlefield equipment.
But such systems are expensive and time-consuming to install and maintain, making cellphones an attractive alternative, especially for earthquake-prone countries in the developing world.
Furthermore, automated counters are expensive, bulky and costly to maintain making them unsuitable as a point of care diagnostic tool.
However, Old World and hominoid primates are long-lived and costly to maintain, making the use of these primates in longitudinal research problematic from both scientific and financial perspectives.
