Sentence examples for maintained rather from inspiring English sources

So far, renewables have maintained rather than grown their market share.

Residents on both estates say they wish their homes had been properly maintained rather than, as they belief, left neglected as an excuse to bring in the bulldozers.

Also essential was an economic surplus, for slaves were often consumption goods who themselves had to be maintained rather than productive assets who generated income for their owner.

A report from Ernst & Young yesterday suggests that solar will compete with retail grid prices as soon as mid-2012, if current subsidy levels are maintained, rather than the mid-2016 "pointy" point with wholesale costs.

Schumpeter maintained, rather, that monopolies, with their economies of scale and ability to innovate, were in fact the handmaids of growth.The economics profession is still divided on the point.

Some channels exhibited a significant decline of sedimentation rates through time, whereas others maintained rather constant rates.

In competition, the McLaren MP4-27 has worn a gradually sloping nose that maintains, rather than minimizes, the visual drama of the car's sensuous flanks.

Mr. Tyrrel has lived aboard since 1975, when he attended boarding school in Massachusetts and chose to live on the boats he was hired to maintain rather than live in the dorms.

He had the stamina to remain stubborn when McCain challenged him to commit himself to the kind of comprehensive program that the National Football League maintains, rather than the pacifying facade outlined in baseball's 2002 collective bargaining agreement.

In response, policymakers have developed a family of policies – collectively known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (Redd) – to provide a financial incentive to governments, agribusinesses and communities to maintain rather than reduce forest cover.

And it's a primarily a fresh realisation of this, he maintains, rather than any "difficult third album" shenanigans, that explains the five-year gap between Sunny Side Up and Caustic Love.