Sentence examples for retaining half from inspiring English sources

We find that the majority of households receive positive net benefits from the policy even with the government retaining half of the auction revenue.

Rocket Internet, which founded Lazada back in 2012, came away with an impressive 15X return on its investment of €18 million ($20.5 million at today's exchange rates) whilst retaining half of its stock for now, but those who came to the party late got modest returns.

Rocket Internet, which founded Lazada back in 2012, came away with an impressive 15X return on its investment of €18 million ($20.5 million at today's exchange rates) whilst retaining half of its stock for now, but those who came to the party late got modest returns.

Apparently back to full power, Castiel helps the Winchesters save Kevin from Crowley- who has been abducting future Prophets to try and find another means of reading the Word of God tablet- and destroy the tablet to prevent Crowley using it, retaining half of the tablet while Crowley flees with the other half.

For some, retaining half the families in the programme was considered sufficient, while other thought this was " appalling" (P10).

UKIP is currently polling around 15%. Retaining half that support would probably be enough to deny the Tories victory at the general election due next May.Mr Cameron's instincts are to placate, not fight, his disgruntled followers.

The US made hard work of clinching a marvellously tight three-team tournament however "Coach McDermott" deserves credit for bringing in just three new players and giving the domestic game a real boost by retaining half-back pairing Matt Walsh (Connecticut Wildcats) and Rich Henson (Philadelphia Fight).

A "non-growing bacteria Arthrobacter sp. on CFC/ceramics" biocatalyst for glucose isomerization retained half its activity after 12 h use at 70 °C.

They retained half of their gold medal pairing from London 2012 in Qin Kai and with his new partner Cao Yuan, have been formidable on the world circuit.

As BP owns 50 percent of the Russian venture, this approach would allow BP to retain half the value of the initial deal.

But under the terms of the Dayton peace deal they retained half of the country while the Muslims and Croats were squeezed into the rest.