Sentence examples for retained great from inspiring English sources

Despite the poverty and pride that caused him to leave, he retained great affection for Oxford.

Although Yongle neutered the fighting power of the crown princes, they retained great cultural prestige as patrons of music, dance, painting, calligraphy and antique collecting.

George II was an irritable but by no means an insignificant figure who retained great influence in terms of patronage, military affairs, and foreign policy.

As the Conservative Party it retained great power throughout the 19th century, consistently receiving the support of about half the electorate.

Within a liberal framework, the central government retained great power, including emergency powers to curb freedom of the press and freedom of association.

At the time, I was thrilled by the theatre of the dish — the duck borne to the table on a willow-pattern platter like a sacred idol — and I retained great affection for that childhood experience.

Rousey, the U.F.C. women's champion, ventured that because Fox went through puberty as a male, she retained greater bone density, an assertion dismissed by doctors.

The PEG-conjugated enzyme retained greater than 90% of the native catalytic activity.

Besides, the mutants were stable over the pH range of 5.0 9.0 as TsPOx, but generally retained greater activities (Fig. 2b).

Cells retained greater viability after 15 min exposure to anisotonic solutions that were buffered with HEPES rather than phosphate.

Eight organs/tissues especially the brain retained greater mass concentration of Au after inhalation exposure to agglomerates of 7-nm than 20-nm AuNPs.