Sentence examples for retain staunch from inspiring English sources
Smallish works like "Mus" (1984), a reclining cone of black-painted spruce, domed with bent cedar slats and wire mesh, retain staunch authority, and big or even colossal ones — such as a new wheeled wagon of faceted lumber, whose uptilted wagon tongue is a slender ash trunk about sixty feet long — feel as intimate as whispers.
Despite collecting two points from his first nine league games since succeeding Sam Allardyce in July, Moyes retains the staunch support of Ellis Short, Sunderland's owner, and Martin Bain, the chief executive.
With Ms. Merkel's former finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, breathing down her neck ahead of Parliamentary elections next autumn, Ms. Merkel is under pressure to retain her reputation as a staunch defender of German interests.
If he diminishes programs financed under the act, like drug subsidies for the elderly and money to recruit and retain nurses, he risks the wrath of one of his staunchest supporters in the election, Dennis Rivera, the head of the state's largest health care workers' union.
In 1863, after three years in Münster working on a number of busts and statues, she married Edmund Duncan Montgomery, whom she had met as a student in Munich; a staunch feminist, she retained her own name.
The prospect must be discouraging for a person like Mr. Kay, who was a staunch believer that Iraq had retained such unconventional weapons.
He retains the leadership of the powerful military commission and has ensured that the standing committee of the politburo - expanded for the first time from seven to nine members - is packed with staunch allies to ensure his influence over policymaking as China struggles on with economic reform.
Last year, Stuart Waldman, president of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, and a staunch opponent of the wage plan, criticized it in theLos Angeles Daily News, saying "It is crucial that our government begins gearing policy toward attracting and retaining business.
