Sentence examples for maintaining the capacity from inspiring English sources

Gingrich is better than anyone in the capital at arousing interest and maintaining the capacity to surprise.

Maintaining the capacity to bring things to a screeching halt is important for any party, so all the gang went down to Georgia to rally the troops.

But the events of Sept. 11 cast doubts on the peaceful intentions of groups that insisted on maintaining the capacity for armed conflict.

Yankees scouts noticed this spring that Ramirez has essentially become an opposite-field hitter, his approach aimed at driving the ball the other way, while maintaining the capacity to attack and pull an inside pitch.

That the military brass still talk of maintaining the capacity to fight a two-front war — presumably on land in Europe, and at sea in the Pacific — speaks to the irrational endurance of the Truman Doctrine.

Here are two items from my 2008 post that are still relevant: Defense and development: The Pentagon has recently made fostering stability in turbulent states a top priority, on a par with maintaining the capacity to wage war.

And that's the thing: The Oscars maintain the capacity to surprise.

Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate?

The ability of MifM to maintain the capacity of the indispensable YidC pathway contributes to the survival of this organism under changing environmental and physiological conditions.

Tarnoff read aloud from the Taiwan Relations Act, which directs the White House to "maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force" against the island.

Conservationists have long sought to preserve the genetic diversity of animals, in order to avoid inbreeding as well as to maintain the capacity for future adaptation.