Sentence examples for retaining major from inspiring English sources

Yet Mr. Arafat, who has made few public comments on the proposals, probably understands that Israel will not budge on the basics: refusing to have the large majority of refugees return, retaining major settlement blocks in the West Bank, and maintaining a security cordon along the Jordan Valley.

Such business strategies are traditionally justified in terms of the importance of retaining major customers in the face of competition by offering them personalized and preferential treatment (Capon 2001; Jonhston and Marshall 2003).

While the requirement of compaction (in terms of retaining major audio components) drives the audio coding approaches, audio classification requires the extraction of subtle, accurate, and discriminatory information to group or index a variety of audio signals.

Yet, students' knowledge structures have been found to approximate those of their teachers (Rutledge and Mitchell [2002]), and currently substantial numbers of biology students become biology teachers while still retaining major misconceptions (Nehm et al. [2008]).

Additionally, within salmonid linkage group arms retaining major synteny to whole 3R teleost chromosome arms (e.g., RT9q with Dr3 and Olat8 – Figure 2 and Additional File 13), marker positions according to the 3R species database assemblies in ENSEMBL were not linear, suggesting major internal re-arrangement and inversions have occurred within the homologous chromosomes among these species.

These self-governing institutions often overlap with the UN, which retains major powers (the police, the judiciary, the security sector and foreign policy among them), lack accountability and produce layers of bureaucracy and resentment, not good governance.

Obama is also said to have scrapped a "gentlemen's agreement" with Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister, that Israel could expect to retain major West Bank settlements in any future peace deal.

Mr. Norwood and his allies in Congress complained that the latest White House proposal would retain major features of a 1974 federal law that made it difficult for patients to sue health plans under state laws dealing with negligence, fraud and wrongful death.

RBP could be worth £4 plus per Reckitt share but there are currently many information gaps (e.g. how much debt is assigned to it?) Further M&A is a possibility - the interest in Merck's OTC assets in April proved that Reckitt retains major ambitions.

The Tories are fighting to retain major gains made in these areas in 2009.

Amplification products from 200 pg DNA can retain major CNV/CNA events with 1-Mb bin size (200 pg sample of Fig. 1D).