How can the men's loyalty be maintained, given their tribal and sectarian ties, and in many cases their insurgent pasts?
Some regulators said that a tougher segregation requirement for foreign accounts would have been too costly and complicated to maintain given the technology at the time.
It was a difficult tactic to maintain, given that officials are typically assessed according to their ability to fulfill quotas set in Beijing, but his seniority gave him latitude to do things his way.
We regularly have to make difficult decisions about the features and products we are able to maintain given the limited resources at our disposal, and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
This was always going to be a hard distinction to maintain, given Mr Gonzales's role in crafting the policies he was being asked to evaluate as attorney-general.
Ethnocentrism and parochialism, as states of mind, were more and more difficult for educated people to maintain given the immense amount of information about or, more important, interest in non-Western peoples, the results of trade and exploratin non-Western
But that attitude has been a little tough to maintain, given the current snail's pace of deal-making: the number of transactions announced in February was the lowest in a month since November 2003, according to Thomson Reuters.
The work, which lasts almost an hour and a half, also requires significant commitment from the listener, which was sometimes hard to maintain, given Mr. Kigawa's rather dispassionate and monochromatic approach.
The B-2s might burn less fuel per hour than the fighters, Mr. Howard said, but cost more to maintain, given that their sensitive outer skins must be inspected after each flight.
That sort of growth could not be maintained, given that Infosys' U.S. customers are mired in a slump.
