Sentence examples for to retain some sort of from inspiring English sources

"But in any situation, you've got to retain some sort of control over your own destiny".

In his correspondence from 1965, he repeatedly expressed concern that he be allowed to retain some sort of control over the Library of Congress release.

That constituted the first piece of hard evidence that Iraq may indeed have been trying to retain some sort of nuclear capacity.Still, this was also the first time the administration has retracted any of its arguments for overthrowing Saddam Hussein, or indeed admitted that it may have exaggerated the imminence of the Iraqi threat.

"We were still trying to retain some sort of aggressive effect on resistance, but it was a kinder, gentler, more socially acceptable form of harassment".

"It's almost like a response to the rationalization and insulation of our lives". Maybe our attraction to stories about the missing, he adds, "is a symptom of our desire to retain some sort of sense of fundamental mystery about life". A man named Flitcraft had left his real-estate-office, in Tacoma, to go to luncheon one day and had never returned.

Hodgkinson said the bank "owed its survival to the taxpayer" but hoped it would retain some sort of stock market listing even if it was only for 1-21-2% its capital.

Thus, it seems that if Wolf wishes to preserve her asymmetry thesis, she must retain some sort of Garden of Forking Paths model for the control required of blameworthy conduct.

Is it fair for Comcast to bear the cost of supporting its own customers, or does Netflix retain some sort of fiduciary responsibility for its popularity among Comcast customers?

Hale's dilemma is directed primarily against fictionalists who take the literal content of their fiction to be false, and those fictionalists prepared to ascribe some other status to their fictional claims avoid the dilemma as initially stated (though this route may encounter difficulties of its own, especially if it retains some sort of conditional analysis of the "according to PW" prefix).

It was originally built in 1818, so it retains some sort of that old-world decadence and it is supposedly one of the top five places in the world for listening to music.

Or not, given that it also needs the resources to monitor mayoral elections, extra levels of collaboration between councils and the Environment Agency, as well as the implications of giving councils greater powers over business rates while still, presumably, retaining some sort of safety net for poor areas.