Sentence examples for retain the state from inspiring English sources
"Ramos stated that these payments and benefits were provided to Green so that Esmor would retain the state contracts for halfway housing in New York," the report says.
The American secretary of state, Colin Powell, is due to visit the region this weekend.Vietnam's National Assembly voted to retain the state president, Tran Duc Luong, and reformist prime minister, Phan Van Khai.
Obama narrowly won North Carolina, traditionally a Republican stronghold, in 2008, but faces an uphill battle to retain the state in November, with the latest polls putting him about four points behind Mitt Romney.
Mr. Payne and his brother, Assemblyman William Payne, who both supported the "For Our Kids," said the victory did not mean that they were ready to withdraw their support from Mr. James in his effort to retain the state Senate seat.
In Michigan, Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm encouraged the mayors of 200 towns to form "cool commissions" to attract and retain the state's young people.
Labor has also promised to scrap the Point Nepean national park development, to remove grazing cattle from the Alpine national park and to retain the state's energy efficiency targets.
Mills has also retained the state's best-connected lobbyist, the GluckShaw Group, and parceled out $140,000 to New Jersey lawmakers in recent years.
Xenophon campaigned heavily on retaining the state's manufacturing industry, which is struggling to recover from car manufacturer Holden downsizing local production.
With the goal of retaining the state's talent and bringing more young companies to Detroit, he founded startup accelerator Bizdom in 2007 and Detroit Venture Partners in 2010.
In 1989, Botha suffered a stroke, retaining the state presidency but stepping down as leader of the National Party, to be replaced by the conservative F. W. de Klerk.
This information leads to a single plausible scenario of the ancestral state being cox1-trnL2-cox2 in the Hexapoda, but the proturan mitochondrial genomes likely retain the ancestral state of the Arthropoda, the cox1- cox2 pattern.
