Sentence examples for mean maintaining from inspiring English sources

To meet its target would mean maintaining the annual one-percentage-point cut in the poverty rate achieved in 1990-2010 for another 20 years.

Keeping this powerful incentive for reform alive will mean maintaining the momentum of the enlargement process, through a credible "open door" policy.

The right staffing, Justice Baynes wrote in the order, would mean maintaining residents and fellows — doctors in training who do much of the day-to-day work alongside more senior doctors — as well as staffing in its psychiatry department.

But getting back up to the speed of the past decade will mean maintaining the macroeconomic discipline and returning to the microeconomic reforms that made it possible in the first place.

"Unfortunately this cannot mean maintaining the front line at current levels.

Practice can mean maintaining a strong, sculpted physique, like polishing a stone.

"I'm fine when I'm swimming and it will just wash off and I'll have to put it on all over again," he whines (er, I mean maintains).

By "dominant type" we mean "maintains a greater relative frequency over time".

This means maintaining multiple offices.

That means maintaining routines and trying to block out distractions.

And it means maintaining that spirit of discovery.