Sentence examples for maintains for example from inspiring English sources

Mr. Nunn maintains, for example, that "Oklahoma!" is not only a palatable piece of entertainment but also a pivotal work that changed musical theater.

Parliamentary democracy, he maintains for example, is merely a sham, a game played out in order to give the impression that people have a say in the way that society works.

He maintains, for example, that whatever has basic intrinsic value must have it to a determinate degree and that this value cannot be "defeated" by any Moorean organic unity.

He maintains, for example, that contemporary anthropologists comparing musical instruments from two cultures that existed at the same time but differed in organization, culture, and handicraft cannot determine which instruments are more "primitive".

She maintained, for example, that he did not propose enough spending for education and day care.

Plimer maintained, for example, that "we cannot stop carbon emissions because most of them come from volcanoes".

Some maintain, for example, that undue sensitivity has been accorded to the feelings of Muslims in deciding whom to rebuff.

She finds that present terminologies are problematic, maintaining, for example, that seeing the gene as both a structural and functional entity has hindered progress.

Scholars had long maintained, for example, that, if the Earth moved, objects released from high places would fall backwards, birds and clouds would be left behind, loose materials on the Earth's surface would be flung off, and so forth.

They maintained, for example, that small children cannot discriminate between truth and fiction — a verdict with which it is all too easy to concur when you have just been informed by a pint-size superhero in a cape that there is a fire-breathing dinosaur in the laundry basket.

I've always maintained, for example, that this was the smartest thing that the early Zynga (both in viral and paid ads) ever did.