Sentence examples for rather maintaining from inspiring English sources

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

Furthermore, in Greece one can move into a new place of residence without registering into the new municipality, but rather maintaining his/her initial municipality record.

Some clinics responded with a policy of not discharging patients but rather maintaining an open-ended relationship based on ongoing support for self-management and independence.

Also, since the ultimate goal is not only reaching but rather maintaining remission for long term, it is necessary to monitor patients closely to control for persistence of remission.

Health systems are being challenged, in meeting the needs of growing numbers of people living with chronic health conditions, where cure of the disease is not the primary outcome of care but rather maintaining or improving functioning over a person's life span.

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.

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 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.