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How to use the word maintain in a Sentence?

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The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

– Adam Smith

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9 months ago

Spirited debate and the free expression of ideas cannot flourish in an atmosphere of turmoil and instability, what is at stake is the expectation that any member of this body, whoever that might be, has a duty to strive to maintain decorum so that the people’s work, the work of all Montanans, can be accomplished.

– David Bedey

Found on CNN
12 months ago

As is common practice, the Supreme Court has decided to maintain the status quo, our case seeking to put women’s health above politics continues on an expedited basis in the lower courts.

– Erik Baptist

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This has been a iterative process over the last handful of years, we think it’s a really great way to maintain [Pepsi’s] familiarity … but also project out to the future.

– Todd Kaplan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The only reason that we do kangaroo management is for ecological and environmental imperatives, we have mouthless moths, we have earless dragons and we have legless lizards, and they are very important for the ecosystem. So we do have to undertake management of those systems and particularly make sure that we maintain a sustainable kangaroo population.

– Rebecca Vassarotti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to maintain these activities to be able to detect future outbreaks and to be even faster at detecting them and finding the source.

– Maroya Walters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Fed buys and sells government securities each day to maintain the range of its policy rate — the federal funds rate — between 4.5% and 4.75%, they do this each day and it is normal for the central bank to inject and withdraw liquidity from the market to achieve their policy objectives.

– Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The UK economy is not doing great. And part of what it will need is a thriving economy, such that it can maintain the level of spending needed.

– Max Bergmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You’re having to take submarines out for quite a significant chunk of time to refit them, and if there are delays or issues that could cascade and you could see issues where Australia actually doesn’t have enough submariners to maintain its current forces of mariners, let alone augment that.

– Richard Dunley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will wait to see how the intensity plays out before authorizing any evacuations, we feel prepared, but will maintain a high level of vigilance.

– Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We maintain a trust-based relationship with the gourmets and our readers. They expect our recommendations to be serious and reliable in order to guide them in their choices.

– Michelin Guides

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are fully aware of the impact of our decisions for the restaurants concerned, we maintain a trust-based relationship with the gourmets and our readers. They expect our recommendations to be serious and reliable in order to guide them in their choices.

– Michelin Guides

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the roles are replaced with the same representation that we already have, we don’t keep losing ground, we maintain, and we build.

– Sheryl Sandberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are opposed to unilateral change of (the) status quo by force. So in that sense, we will make sure that if something happens in the Taiwan Strait, we have to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

– Park Jin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The federal government must take a more hands-on approach and maintain a critical stockpile of essential lifesaving medicines and set prices for medications, akin to existing rate-setting bodies that oversee public utilities.

– Yoram Unguru

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can even do a UV treatment on a brand-new tent as well because most tents on the market aren’t going to have UV protection out of the box, this will help maintain the strength of your tent for much longer than without it.

– Nikwax McLean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During the summer months, we don’t need to use heating inside the station, because all the radiation from the sun, and our own presence inside the station, is enough to maintain an internal temperature of 20-21°C (68-69.8°F).

– Henri Robert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we had the opportunity to strike at a range of 300 kilometers, the Russian army would not be able to maintain defenses and would be forced to lose. Ukraine is ready to provide any guarantees that your weapons will not be involved in attacks on Russian territory.

– Oleksii Reznikov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A satellite ca n’t loiter and so many are needed to criss-cross an area of interest to maintain surveillance.

– Peter Layton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The tank that they can operate and maintain most effectively will be the right option, which probably means one available in large numbers with less complex systems, which runs on the most accessible fuels and uses readily available ammunition – and that likely means the Leopard 2.

– Blake Herzinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Live Nation controls the most popular entertainers in the world, routes most of the large tours, operates the ticketing systems and even owns many of the venues, this power over the entire live entertainment industry allows Live Nation to maintain its monopolistic influence over the primary ticketing market.

– Jack Groetzinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The public value of being able to see the human interactions in frustration, in warmth, in all of those things far outweighs the risk that people will play to the cameras. I mean, we have that during debate one way or the other, i think some of the old guard in Congress opposes this because they want to continue to maintain the fiction that when four or five people are on the floor spending millions of dollars, that that is actually the action of the whole legislative body when the reality is far different.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We share a common vision with Japan to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific and all the things that we’re doing, you know, point towards that direction.

– Defense Ministry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every decision we make is written, fully explained, fully defended, fully laid out. But you can’t do that and maintain a show.

– Sonia Sotomayor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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