Sentence examples for retains it from inspiring English sources

Instead of funnelling rainwater away, a sponge city retains it for use within its own boundaries.

He absorbs scientific information like a sponge and retains it.

The House no longer retains it right to imprison.

Shareholders, they observed, hold the same value whether a firm returns cash or retains it.

The building, though recently rebuilt, retains it old-growth redwood framing.

The word hero has long since lost the ancients' sense of ambiguity, but the art retains it.

Whether or not the BBC retains it, and continues to book him for Question Time, I do and forever shall.

The neighborhood kept its Italian-American character for decades and to a large degree retains it still.

Despite these shortcomings, GDP retains it seat on the throne at the centre of how we understand our economies and judge their success.

It was a moment that pointed up the contradictions, incoherence, and bad faith of the death penalty as it is practiced in the United States, the only advanced democracy on earth that retains it.

The government's order on Tuesday lifts the state of emergency in five provinces but retains it for three months in 19 others, or about a quarter of the country, including Bangkok.