Most important, Matthews provides no evidence to suggest that whatever personal amicability O'Neill and Reagan maintained mattered.
On the contrary, he maintains, matter and form are mind-independent features of the world and must, therefore, be mentioned in any full explanation of its workings.
Government officials said that the level of rain this year had surpassed their expectations, but they maintained that matters were under control.
Education and religion, in particular, he maintained, were matters of private conscience and should not be administered by the state.
From high society portraits of influential (and often unfaithful) wives to orgies of fondling and masturbating women, Klimt maintained consistent subject matter.
The Police Commission wants the present standard maintained, no matter what other police departments permit.
The report, by the Lenfest Foundation, urges a rethinking of the common belief that little fish are "more like weeds than trees," whose populations can be maintained no matter how aggressively they are fished.
Dalton maintained that matter is composed of small, indivisible particles, that the particles, or atoms, of each element were unique, and that chemical reactions were involved in rearranging atoms to form new substances.
Clarke steadfastly maintained that matter has neither an essential nor an accidental power of self-motion.
Hampton Creek fought back against safety concerns at the time of the accusations and has since maintained the matter was closed.
