Sentence examples for rather maintained from inspiring English sources

Many maroons who left the swamp to fight did not become regulars in the Union Army, but rather maintained their status as guerillas in the region.

The catalyst did not undergo continuous deactivation during the catalytic oxidation, but rather maintained a high activity even after several days of continuous operation.

Therefore, it could be concluded that finishing with Oleophobol CPR didn't hinder much of original physical properties of cotton rather maintained or slightly improved its properties along with provision of better soil release as well as repellent properties.

Brown accuses Fayyad of not adding or naming a single new institution built under his government but rather maintained the institutions he inherited from Arafat and improved some of them.

Bim-deficient self-reactive thymocytes did not differentiate to the CD8 SP stage, but rather maintained the CD4loCD8lo phenotype.

What is often referred to as the peace premium is something Northern Ireland would rather maintain.

Employers, for their own strategic reasons, would rather maintain a highly stratified workforce, with a highly skilled, dependable core supplemented by a disposable layer.

The Kurds would rather maintain their own military, called the peshmerga, and want a clause in the transitional constitution requiring regional approval for any entry of Iraqi armed forces into Kurdish areas.

"I'd rather maintain a constant cushion of capital in good times and bad," she says.The accord does maintain minimum capital requirements and allows plenty of scope for fine-tuning.

They would rather maintain the existing system, regarding CRS as second-class citizens and treating them as commodities.

What matters is not so much defending or restoring individual species, but rather maintaining clusters of species making up landscape, forest or river systems.