Sentence examples for maintains rather from inspiring English sources

In competition, the McLaren MP4-27 has worn a gradually sloping nose that maintains, rather than minimizes, the visual drama of the car's sensuous flanks.

And it's a primarily a fresh realisation of this, he maintains, rather than any "difficult third album" shenanigans, that explains the five-year gap between Sunny Side Up and Caustic Love.

He had the stamina to remain stubborn when McCain challenged him to commit himself to the kind of comprehensive program that the National Football League maintains, rather than the pacifying facade outlined in baseball's 2002 collective bargaining agreement.

The opponents may have been Italy, a country that maintains, rather than demonstrates, that it deserves to be in the Six Nations, rather than New Zealand or South Africa, but Ireland and the Springboks had found them hard to break down in the Azzurri's previous two games and there is a sense of the reactive about the men in white now rather than rote.

As a result of the outcry that followed the death of Saro-Wiwa, Shell stopped production in the Ogoniland region, but it still maintains – rather poorly, in fact – a large pipeline and storage infrastructure, which are the cause of a continuous stream of oil flowing into the waters surrounding hundreds of desperately poor communities.

This paper documents reverse traffic reproduction, which maintains, rather than addresses, inequalities.

So far, renewables have maintained rather than grown their market share.

Residents on both estates say they wish their homes had been properly maintained rather than, as they belief, left neglected as an excuse to bring in the bulldozers.

Also essential was an economic surplus, for slaves were often consumption goods who themselves had to be maintained rather than productive assets who generated income for their owner.

Mr. Tyrrel has lived aboard since 1975, when he attended boarding school in Massachusetts and chose to live on the boats he was hired to maintain rather than live in the dorms.

In response, policymakers have developed a family of policies – collectively known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (Redd) – to provide a financial incentive to governments, agribusinesses and communities to maintain rather than reduce forest cover.