Sentence examples for maintaining themselves from inspiring English sources

Jellies have no trouble maintaining themselves in the wild, however.

But recent discoveries have suggested that bacteria, too, face compromises between maintaining themselves and reproducing.

Ethnic or religious hatred, however, persisted, as did the chaos attendant upon the collapse of states that proved incapable of maintaining themselves in the face of fissiparous pressures from below and corruption or gross incompetence from above.

Of the inhabitants of Seneca, one of the Charter villages, he writes: "They looked fit enough and not one of them could be termed fat, but it seemed to Fan they were maintaining themselves in a stressful way, such as not quite eating enough, their dogged faces a bit too drawn, even slightly desiccated".

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We're talking about real estate in one of the most expensive cities in the world and the fact that these clubs are holding the line and maintaining themselves as jazz venues is, to me, remarkable and admirable given the potential income that could be derived from selling them or turning them into dance clubs.

How do they maintain themselves?

They merely 'Maintain' (a transitive verb used intransitively); they maintain themselves in place.

Only those who could maintain themselves in rote memorization were able to continue.

They adhered to Sunnism and maintained themselves in the region southeast of the Caspian Sea.

Many priests work at second jobs to maintain themselves and their families.