Sentence examples for maintained substantial from inspiring English sources

Branches in Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait and Yemen have maintained substantial parliamentary representation since the 1990s.

Germany and Japan, two high-wage countries, have maintained substantial shares of manufacturing in their economies, and are major exporters of manufactured goods to emerging market economies.

In either case, there was a nominal absentee central proprietor temple, shrine, or aristocratic or royal family who maintained substantial control over the land.

It would also require the administration to develop a list of rights abusers and effectively prevent anyone on it from owning property or doing business in the United States, where many wealthy Russians have maintained substantial assets and investments.

Because many of the countries of East and Southeast Asia have maintained substantial trade surpluses and because those regions as a whole have been net exporters, many of those countries have derived most of their imports from other Asian countries, while their main export market has often been outside the region, often in the United States.

Carbon credit trading could be an important source of income to improve the livelihoods of pastoralists whose grazing practices maintained substantial amount of carbon stocks in extensive rangelands.

Some companies need to maintain substantial cash reserves to balance liabilities, like pension obligations.

This requires, despite the current economic crisis, maintaining substantial military investment and a much greater degree of intra-European cooperation.

It also enabled the Ottomans to govern the newly conquered areas without building up a vast administrative system of their own or maintaining substantial occupation garrisons.

News reporting that holds accountable those with power and influence has been a vital part of American democratic life, especially in places with daily newspapers profitable enough, and with owners public-spirited enough, to maintain substantial reporting staffs.

Our board made clear that current economic circumstances gave companies an opportunity to deliver falling bills in real terms over the coming five years while maintaining substantial ongoing investment".