Sentence examples for retaining this from inspiring English sources

His methods for conveying and retaining this authority were multiple.

Flexible working is an effective means of retaining this talent.

Retaining this position requires being certified by the state.

Nobody could quibble with Tomkins retaining this award in the official ceremony.

"There was always scepticism about abolishing fees, but our national executive insisted on retaining this totem.

While retaining this belief in the scientific and democratic nature of Marxism, he expressed shame for his long and uncritical acceptance of Stalinism.

The following year he was elected president of the new National Assembly of the Fourth Republic, retaining this office until his retirement in January 1954.

Hewitt became commander of U.S. naval forces in Europe on Aug. 16, 1945, retaining this post for more than a year.

Iztok Mirosic, the coordinator for Croatia at the Slovenian Foreign Ministry, retorted that Slovenia had always had direct contact with the high seas while it was part of Yugoslavia and that retaining this right was a matter of principle.

"I've endlessly gone over in my head what we might have done differently," Cable says now. "There was always scepticism about abolishing fees, but our national executive insisted on retaining this totem.

In 1620 she took her vows as a Franciscan nun and in 1627 became abbess of a Franciscan monastery in Agreda, retaining this office, except for a brief period, until her death.