Sentence examples for retained the form from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cloepfil retained the form of the building, with its gently concave facade, but wrapped it in a new skin of glazed terra-cotta tiles.

Even when schools shifted from having predominantly white student bodies to being predominantly black, they retained the form and culture of white schools.

They had created Conventions that, like the Roman Senate after Augustus Caesar, retained the form of a deliberative body, but only for the purpose of providing a structure within which to frame a spectacle--the spectacle of a deliberative body at work.

Rather, the Brahmanical thinkers retained the form of inference found in Vātsyāyana's Nyāya-bhāṣya.

Although this animal was about 20 million years too late to be a direct ancestor of other worm lizards, the researchers propose that it retained the form of worm lizard ancestors and is therefore useful in tracking the group's origins.

He invited 9-, 10- and 11-year-olds from the Wharton Elementary School in Houston to model the clay heads that top his sculpture and retained the forms while erasing 95percentnt of their features.

His frame retains the form of a football halfback.

For now, the city retains the form it has held for so long, "frozen in the tropics" and time.

Mr. Tatsumi's art is more sophisticated, retaining the form's strange sparkle even at gloomy moments; he definitely does write manga that isn't quite manga.

The rite of confession in the Euchologion retains the form of a prayer, or invocation, said by the priest for the remission of the penitent's sins.

Some retain the form of the basic type but do not split open when ripe (indehiscent), as with Robinia (locusts) and Cercis (redbud).