How To Use Maintained In A Sentence
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Hospital case notes are more voluminous than traditional British general practice paper records, which are normally maintained on small cards, named after the politician who introduced them more than 90 years ago.
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Taking a dig at the BWSSB, a corporator noted perhaps a cess should be levied on BWSSB every time sewage is let into storm water drains maintained by the BMP.
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Eleazar maintained that it was a great impiety to remain uncircumcised.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The party last night maintained its refusal to reopen the investigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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These brave soldiers will be maintained in self-contained biospheres, like giant lizards from another star, which given the moral status of their behavior, they might as well be.
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I didn't want to be typecast and I think I've maintained a large variety in the roles I've played.
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Both have maintained they have been hard-done by and both have stirred up a public furore over whether they are the victims of the justice system.
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Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence.
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Once a system is in place, it should be maintained through audits and further spending if required.
Computing
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In the meantime, Parkside is being maintained by a crew of former pit men working for a private contractor.
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Retailers maintained their rendezvous with chez Dior and Galliano and are placing orders.
Fashion designer crackups raise question: Is industry's pace too relentless?
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Each group maintained a dignified silence as the marchers passed on their pilgrimage to uphold Republican martyrology.
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The cavalry were too numerous to be maintained solely by the king; rather, each of the seven great town-chiefs had to support, in his own sector of the capital, ten noble warriors and their entourages.
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And, relationships built upon common needs build bridges, even as bridges unmaintained may fall at any time.
Rev. Earl E. Johnson: No Poverty Of Spirit
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Support from the landed classes was maintained only by an impossibly complex and grossly unfair system of taxation.
THE FOUR NATIONS: A History of the United Kingdom
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On the other hand, the Austrians enjoyed a strong defensive position that could be maintained at a relatively low cost.
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Some men maintained protective intergenerational boundaries by distancing themselves from disapproving parents.
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The court heard that he still maintained his innocence over the offences which were years old.
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But since he or his representative maintained for years that his proabortion rights stance is consistent with being a Catholic in good standing, with receiving Holy Communion, leading family prayers, and being visited by priest friends, I can't for the life of me figure out why I should see his doing such things on his deathbed as "signs of repentance" for the manifest grave sin of his proabortion rights stance.
Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
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His aunt maintained him at the university.
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The government maintained its strictly neutral policy.
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An existing fish pass has fallen into disrepair and is not maintained, resulting in fish finding it hard to get upriver to spawn.
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Next in importance after Ashford in east Kent were the running depots (engine sheds) of the two rival lines, where a number of engines were based, cleaned and maintained, and where the majority of the footplate crews were based.
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Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.”
Archive 2009-03-01
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Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
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he maintained an open door for all employees
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He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.
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In older homes, paint regularly contains large amounts of lead that can peel off the walls in flakes and chips or fall on floors and windowsills as a toxic dust, especially in poorly maintained housing stock.
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It is huge - two bedrooms plus a "solarium" (that's what they call it up there), so we would each have our own office (yippee!), tons of closets, beautiful new kitchen (dishwasher!) and bathroom, balcony, fireplace, in an immaculately maintained building with a fitness room, a pool, a parking spot for $50/month (you can't park a tire for $50 in NYC), and it's a stone's throw from the train.
Archive 2004-07-01
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In the Republican zone, power remained in civilian hands and democratic forms were maintained until the end.
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Critics claim the grant maintained initiative is losing momentum with only 309 schools, out of 24,000, opting out in three years.
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He maintained that he had no money to pay the ransom demanded and that it was a case of mistaken identity.
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Not a chink of light was allowed to be seen and regular street patrols were maintained.
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Utilizing otherwise-idle resources, defragmentation occurs whenever and wherever possible so that performance is constantly maintained, and there is never a negative performance impact from defrag.
Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
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Racial tension has been running high at the University of the Free State where a strong police presence was maintained during intervarsity.
News24 Top Stories
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Pending a settlement, the status quo of the boundary should be maintained.
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These ideas, embedded in America's founding documents, are the connective cords by which national unity and civic identity have been maintained in the United States from the 1770s until today.
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They were never linked up to Tendring Council's monitoring centre and were not maintained.
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When he stood up his respiration was maintained by his intercostals.
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The men maintained they were out of the country when the crime was committed.
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At the moment, silence is being maintained over both the arming of the land forces and the total cost of the military plans.
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The pair maintained their concentration and composure throughout the various interruptions for drizzle and bad light to hold out.
The Sun
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Mr. Collins, who maintained his innocence, spent much of those 15 years in a computerless prison law library.
His Case for Freedom
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Pressure will be maintained on the Commission to manage the dairy market, internally and externally, in a way that allows a reasonable price return to producers.
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They maintained that ghosts had no substance.
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A JAILED drugs kingpin maintained his illicit empire from inside a prison cell with a smuggled mobile phone.
The Sun
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The West maintained a system of state, industrial, and private patronage.
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All of which suggests that better maintained rail track in the first place would avoid failures.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Pacific Squadron was maintained with ships sent out on rotation from the Baltic.
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At sea the crusaders maintained a naval blockade, breached by daring blockade-runners or professional swimmers who delivered messages to the besieged garrison.
Times, Sunday Times
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For sustainability and depth, we maintained the next-up company on a two-hour launch string, while keeping the third company down for future contingencies.
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He was arrested in April and maintained his denials even after he had been picked out by the boy during identification procedures.
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Some have even maintained that causal statements can be analysed in terms of counterfactual conditionals.
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Since 1838, when it declared itself a sovereign nation, Costa Rica has enjoyed an independent existence, which it has zealously maintained.
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All of which suggests that better maintained rail track in the first place would avoid failures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trying to influence people's behaviour towards the environment is admirable, not political," maintained everchanging.
The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week . . .
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Fully recessive mutations are maintained in higher frequencies than partially recessive ones and thus cause greater declines in fitness under consanguineous matings.
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Prior to the 1800s, European hunters maintained a large collection of dogs - pointers to locate the game; setters and retrievers to retrieve it; hounds to trail quarry over long distances.
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A substantial aid programme aimed at promoting sustainable economic and social progress and good government in developing countries will be maintained.
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Although there were doubtless feuds and local disputes, society does seem to have maintained its equilibrium.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Gas stoves, water heaters, furnaces and fireplaces can all release this odorless gas if they aren't properly maintained.
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Relations with the ancestors and respect for Nyamwezi traditions are maintained through ritual activity such as animal sacrifices and other ceremonies.
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The boundary of a tissue undergoing convergent extension is maintained by the behavior of cells at the boundary.
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At the same time, it maintained that ‘allegations of disappearances have been made concerning persons who have actually been exfiltrated across the border for training in subversion.’
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Walk across your floor in poorly maintained shoes with heeltaps, spike heels or with any sharp object protruding from your shoe.
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She was behind the decision when the school became grant-maintained in 1993 because she thought it would be better for the children if the head and the governors had more control.
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The old men knew they were lying when they maintained that the sound of the bullroarer was the voice of supernatural beings or that initiands were to be swallowed by monsters.
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Minibuses and jitneys, often unlicensed and poorly maintained, are particularly dangerous.
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The bushy plants are maintained at a height of six to eight feet.
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They maintained a breathless pace for half an hour.
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maintained a constant temperature
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Philadelphians and New Yorkers maintained that for the "conveniency" of transacting public business it made the most sense to place the capital in an established city.
'Washington: The Making of the American Capital'
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The increase was maintained for a period of more than 20 min.
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On the ship he played bingo, went to the shows, dressed for dinner, and maintained his silent decorum.
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Landlords are required by law to have an annual gas safety check carried out and to ensure that boilers are maintained in a safe condition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thereafter, Hopesay Parish Council has maintained the tree dressing custom, which is unique in Britain.
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Seeking to assuage fears that Argos could be losing ground to rivals, Mr. Duddy said the store had maintained its market share in consumer electronics and the slump in demand was industrywide.
Retailers Slump as Argos Sales Plummet
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As a result, excretion of nitrogenous waste is reduced, and fluid and electrolyte balances cannot be maintained.
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They ensure that the patient's body is maintained in correct alignment during positioning and the procedure.
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He steadfastly maintained his independence and never allowed the Bank to become a poodle of political causes.
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We've maintained that Intel's range of Atom chips were simply too weak to really love and adore the way a slab of silicon should be, but that's probably because of our infatuation with things like "overclocking" and "Core i7 Extremes.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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The oldest staff maintained discipline often just with the raising of an eyebrow and rarely shouted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moreover, it is felt by many that by leaving the frog intact, the proper width between the heels will be maintained.
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In this form it presumably could be maintained in a population against the tendency to swamping by intercrossing.
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Holmes, the grandfather of realism, maintained a remarkable correspondence with Laski.
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Order in this part of the world can be maintained only due to a balance of power or some hegemonic force.
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Live colonies and their gardens were maintained at room temperature in artificial colony chambers.
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Historically, farming in China has been done on tiny, nontransferable plots maintained by a single family, which would consume most of the output.
Private-Equity Firms Go Farming in China
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You will notice custom quality and upgrades throughout this home such as coffered ceilings, solid oak trim, slab granite counter tops and beautifully maintained hardwood floors.
WN.com - Articles related to Tobacco Funds Shrink as Obesity Fight Intensifies
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A total of 10 counters functioned to issue tickets and a strict vigil was maintained to stop the visitors from carrying polythene bags.
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After the massacre the local port was a scene of panic as people, mostly women, desperate to escape, fought their way up the gangplanks carrying their belongings and children onto badly maintained and overloaded ferries.
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Though the depression solitons were eventually damped by viscosity, they maintained the shape and velocity required by the standard soliton equations as they traveled across the channel.
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The new arrangement caused much criticism of the administrative board members, who maintained a discreet silence.
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It is equally important that the practice of not confirming or denying the existence of a warrant is maintained consistently.
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His tone of barely disguised contempt is maintained throughout the book.
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The combustion of a vastly increased bulk of pulverized coal and a greatly enlarged combustion zone, extending about forty feet longitudinally into the kiln -- thus providing an area within which the material might be maintained in a clinkering temperature for a sufficiently long period to insure its being thoroughly clinkered from periphery to centre.
Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
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What has maintained the old world order has been the might of the omnipotent dollar.
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She has suggested set standards that should be maintained to ensure outbreaks do not occur.
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But they maintained their composure to thwart the league leaders through sustained periods of pressure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thousands of people live in poorly maintained public housing or equally substandard private rental accommodation.
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Richard Carrier: I predict Evangelicals and Catholics (and Mormons and Baptists and everyone else) will not be able to arrest the current trend in younger generations toward liberal non-denominationalism and the abandonment of the entire church-sermon model that Christianity has maintained so far.
Interview with Richard Carrier
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The central castings warehouse location is very efficiently maintained via chaotic warehousing and WLAN forklift terminals which are implemented in abas ERP.
WN.com - Business News
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Dr. Scoville, though he still kept his word and maintained his position with regard to the prisoners, continually "thorned" the captain with a prospect of the gallows, which he declared was his certain doom.
The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer
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The longer a database is maintained the more corrupt it becomes.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the second cell must be maintained to keep weeds from growing or rodents from burrowing and potentially damaging the liner.
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The home was well maintained and was furnished with many antiques and wall hangings from around the world.
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The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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Has the organization established, Documented and maintained a Configuration Management Process appropriate to the product?
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The books are lovingly maintained, and kept on shelves behind a protective screen.
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This forced, violent, alembicated style is most abhorrent to me; it can’t be helped; the note was struck years ago on the Janet Nicoll, and has to be maintained somehow; and I can only hope the intrinsic horror and pathos, and a kind of fierce glow of colour there is to it, and the surely remarkable wealth of striking incident, may guide our little shallop into port.
Vailima Letters
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Everyone co-operated in making sure that good manners were maintained, even if it meant snitching on people who used bad language.
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Economic sanctions, the cultural and sporting boycotts, and diplomatic isolation must be maintained and intensified.
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We must try to ensure that vital food supplies are maintained.
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Welsh nationalism was about neither land nor Home Rule but was founded on the Nonconformist campaign to disestablish the Anglican Church, which was maintained by the payment of tithes.
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Throughout his life he maintained an interest in country ways including National Hunt racing, shooting and fly-fishing.
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There is no well organized system for training apprentices in photoengraving, stereotyping, and electrotyping, or in any of the lithographic trades, except that of poster artist, in which an efficient and strictly regulated system of apprenticeship is maintained.
Wage Earning and Education
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In a day filled with numerous sidebars requested by the Assistant District Attorney Thomas, Smith maintained her innocence and asserted that Laura Jones could not have committed the crime.
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For a dirty punk rock boy covered in tatts who didn't like deodorant and who could smell either surprisingly sexy or really really bad when sweaty, Punkboy's house was extremely well-maintained.
What have you been doing with your life?
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In his private capacity, the president is subject to lawsuits like any other citizen, the panel maintained.
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In Canada the trackmen, i.e. those who maintained the track, were called sectionmen because a gang of three men and their foreman were responsible for a definite section of track.
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Security during the president's visit must be maintained at all costs.
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The result is that the moral absolutism claimed by legal categorizations are avoided and the validity of both sides is maintained.
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The match took place at the R.S.I. ground, a lovely piece of turf maintained by the army malis, with a row of trees ringing the outfield.
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The area consists of a flat patchwork of marshes in the Gangetic plain, artificially created in the 1850s and maintained ever since by a system of canals, sluices and dykes.
Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
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Byord maintained the usual small-boy zoo of bugs and amphibia.
Do you ever read writing?
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The commands or GUI interact with OS/400 service tools that are accessing the primary partition where all of the partitioning information is maintained.
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Second: Amid the vertigo-inducing swing of telecom and tech stocks at the cusp of this century, a certain "humdrum" investor, Berkshire Hathaway sage Warren Buffett maintained his plays in such bland sectors as insulation, carpeting and mobile homes via acquisitions like Johns Manville, Shaw Industries and Clayton Homes, respectively.
Barrick Gold Alum Thompson Joins Rinker Group
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It'd need to go all the way to 32nd to reach the locks, and you'd have to remove all of the on-street parking on one side of the road and you'd have to re-pave Leary in that section because it is so unmaintained that it is a hazard in the current condition, and you'd still be left with turning conflict points at Dock, Lone, 20th, 24th, 26th, and 28th.
SDOT Won’t Appeal Judge’s Missing Link Ruling « PubliCola
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Sales of new light commercial vehicles, bakkies and minibuses had also maintained strong upward momentum.
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Her show last year maintained a semblance of identifiable images suggesting real, if manipulated, skyscapes, seascapes and landscapes.
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It was noticeable, however, that most of the lead drummers (‘lolay’ men) maintained their allegiance to goatskin.
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Objective To reconstruct a penis with sensation and erectile function maintained by corpora cavernosa lengthening and skin flap transferring in the penis defect cases.
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Baraka, the nephew of European Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer, maintained the top spot for the third straight round with a 70, but he struggled to a 76 in the final round and tied for 11th.
USATODAY.com - England's Emerson wins Russian Open
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In the past, a foreman or supervisor would keep watch over staff to ensure production in the factory was maintained.
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None of eight witnesses called by the prosecution saw anyone suspicious, he maintained.
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Of 22,000 state-maintained schools in this country, about 7,000 are faith schools.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final step is to rescale the points so that the relative positions are maintained.
Times, Sunday Times
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British independent schools are now more ethnically diverse than their state-maintained counterparts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only has she maintained it, but she has kept it bright and shining, untarnished by time.
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Sites can be maintained by any authorised club member.
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It is the principle or requirement, of geometric base in interior design which, coupled with our natural delight in yielding or growing forms, has maintained through all the long history of decoration what is called conventionalised flower design.
Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples
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The car has always been properly maintained.
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I maintained my resistance, accepting the mental pummelling as he wore himself out against me.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Perhaps the most authoritative Web site in the Stern universe is the one carefully maintained by Kevin Renzulli.
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Inflation is dropping below 6 per cent but it remains to be seen whether that can be maintained.
Times, Sunday Times
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Residential solicitors and valuation surveyors are colluding to ensure that the current unfair and expensive system is maintained.
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Congressional elections In simultaneous legislative elections the Democrats maintained control of both chambers of Congress.
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He maintained to the day of his death — and the most experienced expressmen agree with him — that there is profit in carrying letters all over the United States at one cent each, and that the government monopoly of the business alone prevents the people from enjoying such a boon.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Remembering Lysander Spooner:
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The royal bodyguard and a navy were maintained and the revenue to support them raised.
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The example below shows a system-maintained MQT, to illustrate the syntax and the steps to follow in defining an MQT and enabling the MQT for routing.
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Through their oral tradition, they have maintained that they were descended from earlier Jews.
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Although the paper mills were in Manchester, Daniel maintained a store on Main Street in Hartford, where he bought rags for papermaking and also sold the finished paper.
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It is axiomatic that traditional agricultural management of the uplands has maintained and conserved these landscapes and their wildlife.
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Arizona State maintained a shred of momentum early in the second half.
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He said that provided a police presence was maintained in the centre, the project could be beneficial.
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He maintained an attitude of high seriousness.
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We must try to ensure that vital food supplies are maintained.
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The second most important medium is commercial television, which has consistently maintained about 25% of the total. 7.
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Hess also maintained that self-help promoted by self interest amongst individual Mafioso could often be mistaken for organizational solidarity.
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A devoted but not exclusive follower of Newton's achievements and insights, he maintained through most of his life that mathematization and a priori universal laws were preconditions for genuine scientific character (like Galileo and Descartes earlier, and Carnap later, Kant believed that mathematical exactness constituted the main condition for the possibility of objectivity).
The Unity of Science
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This is one of the least metronomic recordings I know, and yet the concerto holds its shape because a basic pulse has been maintained, in spite of the accelerandi and rallentandi.
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She has always maintained her innocence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each tube received an aliquot of 100 ml of sodium fluoride solution (20 mg/l) and was sealed and shaken in a bath maintained at 298 K for 3 hours.
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The full-forward line maintained their monopoly on scoring with two more points from Kilkenny and Carty to put Aghamore five ahead after eleven minutes.
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They call for ancient fingerposts and milestones to be maintained regularly by councils and, where possible, reintroduced as part of village design blueprints.
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Amis admonished readers to see these symptoms for what they are: “You have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what” a skunk you are, “you have not come at last to see life as it really is.”
Your Brain Is Going to Fall Out of Your Head - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
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The cameras are often not maintained as well as they should be, or at all, and even when they're functioning smoothly the images they're transmitting can be pretty smudgy.
The Perfect Webcation
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A Conservative MP, he maintained in the 1920s that Conservatism was "above all things a spirit, not an abstract doctrine."
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As a result the potential Republican strength is maintained at 20 seats, with a Democratic advantage built into 33 seats.
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Nato maintained its military pressure on the insurgents yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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They talked with a researcher via a handsfree mobe for half of the trip and maintained a concentrated silence for the other half.
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He maintained an attitude of high seriousness.
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It's been removed, after six months of sitting in an unmaintained, broken state.
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It maintained its triple-A rating on UK sovereign debt but warned of a reassessment if growth falters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Animals were pre anesthetized with ketamine hydrochloride, fitted with an endotracheal tube, and maintained on isoflurane anesthesia.
Archive 2008-04-01
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With God's grace, I have maintained a strict discipline, and all thanks go to the art form of dance.
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The understory includes sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush, and a fire-maintained chaparral component of snowbrush and manzanita.
Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)
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The youth, however, had a wild and irreclaimable propensity to dissipation, which finally sent him to serve in the corps long maintained in the service of the States of Holland, and called the Scotch Dutch.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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France had maintained a longstanding tradition of floral decoration in art and manuscript illumination since the Middle Ages.
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a second; but, by instructing them in the laws of military discipline with the same care and exactness a priest would use in teaching ceremonies and dreadful mysteries, and by severity to such as transgressed and contemned those laws, he maintained his country in its former greatness, esteeming victory over enemies itself but as an accessory to the proper training and disciplining of the citizens.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Food product quality is more easily maintained thereby reducing spoilage losses and production time through unscheduled cleaning.
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Edwards's bright-line rule should be maintained as is, particularly when the reinterrogation involves the same crime and the suspect is incarcerated.
SCOTUSblog
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Still he as constantly maintained them, with a kind of congruity that astonished me, and even rendered many of them plausible.
Anna St. Ives
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Security is maintained by terminal operators using unique identification and password codes to gain access to the system.
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On the surface I maintained the enigmatic half-smile of the Mona Lisa.
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Renvyle House Hotel has an idyllic setting, with its own stretch of beach, superb grounds including a croquet lawn, and rambling but beautifully maintained gardens.
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Over the period of a month or so, the temp kept creeping up even though the room temperature is maintained relatively constant.
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Well maintained buildings, gates, pillars, old stone walls and styles add to the visual appearance of the farm and help it blend into the landscape.
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As I maintained a while back, punk was part of the glam continuum; the ‘break’ between glam and punk looks chimerical.
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By not spraying light indiscriminately as is done with unshielded fixtures, the desired illuminance level can be maintained by focusing the light to the proper location and reducing the light bulb's power consumption.
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It removed the polytechnics (now universities) and sixth-form colleges from local control and allowed secondary schools to opt out of local authority control and become grant-maintained schools funded by Whitehall.
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Director Jo Ward maintained her faith in her cast and performances all round were applaudable as, indeed, was Jo's choice of play and her patience.
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He maintained this gift even after he had been disabled by the recurrence of teenage polio.
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Moreover, the positive side to Irish neutrality, our promotion of diplomatic settlements, our proud UN peacekeeping traditions, must be maintained.
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The principle of divine kingship was maintained even when the king was replaced by rulers drawn from outside the family of the enthroned king.
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All the way to his dorm room he pestered me about it, and I, quite easily, maintained my silence.
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Even in those cases, Mr. Kuby said, he has "maintained friendly, off-the-record communication with the prosecutors, no matter what names we were calling each other.
Silence Outside Court
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Adequate air volume must be maintained with periodic manual reinflation.
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Prime restoration tracts are often isolated, with unmaintained access roads or no roads at all.