Sentence examples for maintained only a from inspiring English sources

Despite this more diversified tax structure, the Muromachi regime maintained only a shaky hold on the nation.

After seizing and looting Qawalish last week, the rebels maintained only a small force in the town.

Though for years these radicals had called themselves the most devoted followers of the supreme leader, they had previously maintained only a marginal role in the polity.

Unlike the continental powers, with their conscripted armies and vast number of trained reserves, Britain in peacetime had maintained only a small army of volunteers.

Chivers, meanwhile, describes, in compelling terms, "a midsummer desert war": After seizing and looting Qawalish last week, the rebels maintained only a small force in the town.

When Ondaatje undertook his first full-dress novel, "In the Skin of a Lion," published in 1987, he therefore proceeded by spinning a series of image-driven vignettes out of his imagination and then arranging them in formal patterns that maintained only a loose sense of obligation to the requirements of continuity and closure.

But the team maintains only a 3-point lead over fifth-place Arsenal for the fourth and final Champions League spot.

Despite spending nearly $20 million this summer attacking his Republican opponent, Bill Simon Jr., Mr. Davis maintains only a slim lead in public opinion polls.

Ministers should also explain what they mean by Britain maintaining only a "minimum deterrent", the report says.

The attack happened in Dogon Dawa, a village deep in the pasturelands of Kaduna State, where police and security forces maintain only a light presence.

Unlike other Department of Defense organizations, DARPA does not have its own laboratories or research facilities, and it maintains only a skeletal bureaucracy.