But as I left the shores of the United States on Monday night – where everyone's nerves were on show – and although I have always maintained cautious optimism when it came to believing in Barack's success, I found myself having to rebuke those nerves and hold onto the mantra, the now iconic mantra, "Yes we can".
They often maintain cautious and would naturally have concerns over that change (Hord et al. 2006).
"We are maintaining a cautious sales outlook for the Americas until we see solid evidence of an upturn," said Patrick McGuiness, the chief financial officer.
And he cannot hope to do so by maintaining a cautious diplomatic silence while the Arab world's most populous and most important country unravels.
But Citigroup's stock price hadn't moved much in five years, and maintaining a cautious approach would have involved forgoing the kind of growth that some of the firm's rivals UBS and Bank of America were already enjoying.
But Citigroup's stock price hadn't moved much in five years, and maintaining a cautious approach would have involved forgoing the kind of growth that some of the firm's rivals — UBS and Bank of America — were already enjoying.
Though Mr. Romney's campaign advisers are maintaining a cautious posture, saying that they expect Mr. Santorum, who represented Pennsylvania in the House and the Senate for 16 years, to win the popular vote here, they privately think that Mr. Romney has a good shot at winning the Pennsylvania primary.
But with mass protests rocking Egypt, across Gaza's southern border, the Palestinian adversaries have united in maintaining a cautious silence, hedging their bets given the unpredictability of the outcome and clearly concerned about a possible spread of popular unrest to their areas.
"We are maintaining a cautious outlook for U.S. sales and do not expect an improvement until later this year.
At a national level, the police are maintaining a cautious stance on drugs testing.
