Sentence examples for maintaining something from inspiring English sources

So it has an interest in maintaining something like the current distribution of farmland.

Besides living longer they are retiring earlier by choice and maintaining something close to their old standard of living.

For one thing, the work of exposure, of supporting a global brand, presents clear-cut logistical problems for maintaining something resembling a private life.

DreamWorks was initially started to challenge the major studios by making big, commercial movies while maintaining something of a filmmaker's touch.

They are understandably very closely involved in maintaining something resembling the status quo," said Sir Jonathon, who is trying to overhaul the energy system through his sustainable development charity Forum for the Future.

The purpose, it seems pretty clear, was to lock Cameron and the Conservatives into continuing to oppose the extension of detention without charge and maintaining something that at least broadly resembles a civil liberties agenda.

But I did maintain something that is hard to describe.

Delta, for its part, has maintained something of a middle ground.

The auteur nevertheless maintains something of an on-off relationship with his country's Oscars committee.

You can't maintain something and its contradiction," the boycott campaign founder Omar Barghouti told the Guardian.

Tupperware has ditched its museum of food containers in Kissimmee, Florida (though it maintains something similar in Orlando).