He could and did win with the ace, retaining solid protection in the suit.
Even though preliminary estimates suggest that Democrats received somewhat more votes than Republicans in Congressional elections, the G.O.P. retains solid control of the House thanks to extreme gerrymandering by courts and Republican-controlled state governments.
Cu additions to Al alloys decrease pitting susceptibility provided that the Cu is retained solid solution.
This may help to build up a more porous, permeable and rigid lattice structure, which retains solid particles and allows the water to be transmitted.
If Cain somehow retains solid support through the primaries, Romney's free to co-opt any of Cain's positions, like a vulture picking at a carcass.
"Despite the exposés of the order's sordid affairs, it retains solid ecclesial support among fellow conservatives and retains impressive financial resources," said Andrew Chesnut, religious studies professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Contradictory results indicate that following ingestion of a solid-liquid meal, the stomach retains solid food predominantly in the proximal stomach, until the majority (about 80%%) of the liquid has emptied [ 17- 19].
The reactor was equipped with a borosilicate glass microfibers filter (Headline) retaining solid particles of 0.1 µm size and with a thermocouple for the measurement of the temperature of the biomass bed during the process.
Most of the nanoparticles remained in the sand columns, with an increasing then decreasing retained solids pattern.
Fair agreement is obtained between these retained solids estimates from material balance and from coil impediment considerations.
