Sentence examples for retained that when from inspiring English sources

His family was so unsure about whether he would be retained that when he returned home one night, two of his four grown children were there to greet him, simply to show their support.

It still retained that shape when we last gazed at it from a distance of about 200 miles.

She retained that title when her affiliation at the university changed to the department of biology in 1993 and then to the department of geosciences in 1997.

A year later Bolívar's patriotic forces were in full retreat, but, when Gran Colombia (present-day Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, and Ecuador) finally won independence in 1821, Caracas became the capital of Venezuela; the city retained that distinction when Venezuela seceded from Gran Colombia in 1830.

Originally a trading and lumbering community that grew into a town of regional significance, Ottawa was named the capital of the Province of Canada in 1857 and retained that status when Canada became a dominion within the British Commonwealth in 1867.

They retained that status even when they later ran deficits.

He retained that position until 1955, when he became P.D. Leake professor of finance and accounting at Cambridge (1955 80; professor emeritus from 1980).

Bartók was appointed to the faculty of the Academy of Music in 1907 and retained that position until 1934, when he resigned to become a working member of the Academy of Sciences.

Appointed Huggins's Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1940, he retained that role until 1946, when he became Minister of Internal Affairs and Justice; he added the Education and Health portfolios two years later.

As Mr. Strasburg prefers to see it, he had adapted his behavior to survive in Iraq and then retained that behavior — vigilant, distrustful, armed — when he returned home.

And the Norwegian manager will now look to retain that title when the 2015-16 campaigetsets under way against Jim McIntyre's side on 1 August.