Sentence examples for maintains cannot from inspiring English sources

The General Election Legal and Accounting Compliance Fund that each campaign maintains cannot collect money from corporations or labor unions, while donations from individuals are limited to $2,000.

Mr Bulger, who probably has enough allies in the legislature to keep his job, has begun to fight back, calling Mr Romney's plans elitist: the rich governor, he maintains, cannot understand the working man's need for affordable education.Still, it was a stunningly bold opening move by Mr Romney.

Self-interest, he maintains, cannot explain why we approve what we do, and in particular, why we identify with those of benevolent character.

Even the fragment marked "VIII", he maintains, cannot with certainty be said to relate to the symphony, since Sibelius often used both Roman and Arabic numerals to refer to themes, motifs or passages within a composition.

Musical meaning and communication, he maintained, cannot exist in the absence of the cultural context.

Yet this is an obscure, highly specialized world; group studies in a laboratory, most scientists maintain, cannot yet be applied to the behavior of an individual, especially an individual's commission of a violent crime.

Reason alone, Shaftesbury maintained, cannot motivate.

The mind, he maintained, cannot be so deeply ignorant of what it senses or of what it does (Essay I.vi §§3 5).

Many of the fine-scale variations are associated with sub-storms, which we maintain cannot be adequately characterized from the ground with existing networks.

The Metropolitan Police, meanwhile, maintains progress cannot be made until the Airwave system is fully functional.

But Jackson maintains fracking cannot be ruled out as a cause, given the high pressures used in the practice.