It's important to note these banks have minimal exposure to the housing market compared with their big brothers and still maintain sturdy revenue streams.
Michigan maintained a sturdy lead for much of it, but, at the end, Syracuse seemed ready to steal the game.
He maintained his sturdy composure, a favorite fixture in the background throughout decades of Christmas photographs.
But what they produced together changed American musical theater, enlarging its horizons while maintaining a sturdy, optimistic and determinedly wholesome vision of American life and values.
Yet this country of 1 billion largely impoverished people, home of the second-largest Muslim population in the world, still manages to maintain a sturdy system of democracy based on respect for religious and ethnic diversity.
When turned outside, they require well-maintained, sturdy fences to be safely contained.
Maintain a sturdy stance.
"She is a sturdy, rugged vessel that was well maintained and that the crew members were proud of," said Phil Greene, president and CEO of Tote Services.
They then rough it in style, devouring these delicacies using cardboard plates and plastic utensils on sturdy steel picnic tables in a fastidiously maintained, vaguely Asian outdoor garden.
The music, much of it from her recent bossa-nova flavored album, "Quiet Nights" (Verve), maintained an aura of hushed introspection with occasional blips of swing, when her sturdy jazz pianism came to the fore.
She added that the shelters were sturdier than the "lower-quality shelters built by other organizations" and could last up to a decade "if well maintained".
