Sentence examples for which they retained from inspiring English sources

Buoyed by a massive turnout of Afrikaner voters, the Nationalists secured a parliamentary majority, which they retained for the next 46 years.

Using such attestations, Diakonoff classified Afro-Asiatic languages into Ancient, Middle, and Late Stage languages according to the extent to which they retained features of the ancestral protolanguage.

At the start of the "Pastoral" Symphony the orchestra's strings had a warm, supple sound, which they retained through the concert, even in the more energized closing movements of the Seventh.

Analysts said the problems echoed those exposed earlier in the mortgage crisis, with banks seemingly eager to collect fees for loans in which they retained little or no risk.

The position of the papacy was enhanced by the decline of state power, and this prepared the way for the popes' temporal sovereignty over parts of Italy (which they retained from the 7th to the 19th century).

Sion became the seat of a bishop in the late 6th century, and from 999 the bishops of Sion held the spiritual and temporal power in Valais, which they retained, at least in part, until 1798.

This is a means by which they retain control.

They adopted an identity as "living sculptures", which they retain, becoming both the subject and object of their art.

These instruments also vary in the degree to which they retain the bugle's characteristic wide bore.

The study, published last week in The Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at people with hemochromatosis, a genetic disorder in which they retain too much iron in their blood.

The European Commission in Brussels has pushed Google and other American Internet companies to shorten the period for which they retain consumer data.