Branches in Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait and Yemen have maintained substantial parliamentary representation since the 1990s.
Some companies need to maintain substantial cash reserves to balance liabilities, like pension obligations.
This requires, despite the current economic crisis, maintaining substantial military investment and a much greater degree of intra-European cooperation.
Germany and Japan, two high-wage countries, have maintained substantial shares of manufacturing in their economies, and are major exporters of manufactured goods to emerging market economies.
In either case, there was a nominal absentee central proprietor temple, shrine, or aristocratic or royal family who maintained substantial control over the land.
It also enabled the Ottomans to govern the newly conquered areas without building up a vast administrative system of their own or maintaining substantial occupation garrisons.
News reporting that holds accountable those with power and influence has been a vital part of American democratic life, especially in places with daily newspapers profitable enough, and with owners public-spirited enough, to maintain substantial reporting staffs.
Our board made clear that current economic circumstances gave companies an opportunity to deliver falling bills in real terms over the coming five years while maintaining substantial ongoing investment".
But in Ms. Toll-Reed's view, Sun's commitment to maintaining substantial investments in research and development -- which may pay off in innovative products -- also takes a toll on the company's bottom line.
