Sentence examples for retaining anything from inspiring English sources

He says: "In order to have any hope of retaining anything, the government has such as steep burden of proof that it's appropriate to have him out [of prison] while this is considered".

If you do find that you can't work and that you're not retaining anything, take a short break (not too long and don't do anything that will start consuming your time like going on the internet).

He can't retain anything.

But didn't I, after underlining all those interesting parts, retain anything else?

Because, based on how you just "played" out there, I don't think your brains have retained anything I have ever told you.

Of him Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421 98), the biographer of 15th-century luminaries, wrote: "He did not know what avarice was: indeed, if he retained anything of his own, it was simply because no one had asked him for it".

Gloria, who is given a particularly bright and barmy spin by Gleason, embodies the comedy of melancholy, a woman so caught up in her internal drama that she can't listen to or retain anything.

In the throes of an attack, treatments must be administered intranasally, through an IV or injection or by suppository, since sufferers are unable to retain anything, even water, given by mouth.

Under the draft bill, the Royal Mail and other postal services could be asked to retain "anything written on the outside" of items for up to 12 months so they can be accessed by the police, security services and HM Revenue and Customs.

"I couldn't retain anything.

Cramming the night before is proven to be ineffective, because you're taking in so much information at once that it's impossible to memorize it at all — in fact, you'll hardly retain anything.