Sentence examples for retain the thing from inspiring English sources

"The challenge now is to retain the thing," he added.

We retain the things that make us who we want to be, and discard the rest.

Buick has retained the things that make the LaCrosse a comfortable, quiet and soothing sedan, and it has managed to improve the car's fuel economy without any sense of sacrifice.

It removes the ability to retain the very thing the injunction is supposed to protect, namely privacy.

Men's behavior "has to change," Cavill said, but "it's important to also retain the good things, which were a quality of the past, and get rid of the bad things".

Then they set about figuring how they could best retain the nice things it stands for (dependability and stability), jettison the not-so-nice (formal, somewhat stodgy) — and, most important, add attributes like modern, innovative and flexible.

The family proudly retains the only thing he managed to leave the ship with: a watch that stopped at 8 15, the moment that Sunday morning when he hit the water after jumping from the Arizona.

Writing in his column in the Racing Post, Hughes apologised to punters who had backed him to retain the championship, saying that "things haven't panned out as I expected".

Mr. Babbitt advocated retaining the good things from the past.

To win 5-0 at home was one thing; to retain the urn on English soil quite another.

Forced into mistakes, Spain knew that Croatia had the skill to retain the ball – and do clever things with it.