Sentence examples for were being retained from inspiring English sources

In September 2011, the Commons public administration select committee recommended that the Cabinet Office should monitor departmental redundancy programmes, to ensure key skills were being retained.

Carl Weisbrod, president of the alliance, said that as many as 10 buildings once scheduled for housing were being retained as offices.

Representative Johnnie B. Byrd Jr., the No. 2 Republican in the Florida House, said tonight that manual recounts were being retained because the law had been "clarified" to set standards and conditions for conducting them.

Gen. Peter Pace of the Marines, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that five of the men, who were "still of interest to us," were being retained.

He said public adjusters were being retained by homeowners who no longer felt a personal connection with local insurance agents, as they did years ago when the agents had more authority to settle claims on the spot.

The study found that students were being retained for as long as nine years in a program that is supposed to keep students for only three years, and that the force of 4,000 bilingual teachers was inadequately trained and skilled.

But then we were stumped that he was being retained.

Only 200 maintenance work ers are being retained.

They told him he was being retained, presumably because of financial reasons.

"This is really where the old Portuguese way of life is being retained".

A small and select collection of materials are being retained in a climate controlled and secure room in the Law School.