Days before the Israeli strike, Mr. Nasrallah issued some of his strongest statements yet of support for Mr. Assad, edging closer to confirming what the Obama administration has already reported: that Hezbollah is backing him militarily, not merely tolerating border crossings by some of its members to defend Lebanese citizens in Syria, as Hezbollah has officially maintained.
Data were collected from all hospitals and integrated into a dataset officially maintained by the Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan.
They officially maintain that the Internet is open and uncensored in China.
But, apart from a rapidly shrinking RINO rump, the G.O.P. officially maintains that the science is "uncertain," the scientists lack "integrity," and the government should be prohibited from doing anything about it.
Instead, the court relied on Hungarian maternity doctors: professionals who not only have no direct experience of home births but who officially maintain the statistically unproven position that home births are more dangerous that hospital deliveries.
The federal government officially maintains a "no policy" cultural policy -- despite its myriad tax codes, military bands, arts agencies, fellowship and exchange programs, educational standards, archives and museums, monuments, national parks, cultural attaches, broadcast regulations and copyright laws, and the First Amendment.
But the government officially maintains that, in Mr. Sposito's words, "the guerrillas do not exist in Brazil, only narcotraffickers," and has made it clear that it intends to keep its forces as far removed as possible from the combat in Colombia.
The Philippines, on the other hand, officially maintains sovereignty to eight islands in the Spratly named as the Kalayaan group of islands (KIG, or Freedom Islands), which is formally identified as a municipality of the province of Palawan.
Nonetheless, Serbia has been quietly inching toward NATO, expanding its cooperation while still officially maintaining its neutrality.
The United States officially maintains 737 bases worldwide, worth more than $127 billion and covering at least 687,347 acres in some 130 foreign countries.
Meanwhile, the Myanmar government officially maintains that the Rohingya people burned down their own villages and migrated out of their own will.
