The Germans were desperately anxious to maintain their hold on this valuable city, because of its important position in the Pas de Calais coal fields.
These orders were subsequently canceled, because an orderly retreat could not be made in such a pinched salient, so the Germans had been commanded to maintain their positions as long as possible.
Let us follow their example, and determine to maintain our national rights, as they do to maintain their usurpations on them.
Doña María was but a type of the unsexed women, mugeres varoniles, common at the time, who would take the field ormaintain their place in factious intrigue with as much ferocity and pertinacity as men.
More than three million are continuing to maintain their low-cost National Service Life Insurance policies.
The wild, and unsound positions they have urged to maintain their practice, would be too large here to insert.
Mr. Hendricks disagreed with the Senator from Delaware that the people of the South, at once and without consideration, must turn their backs upon the proposition now made them in order to maintain their honor.
They failed to maintain their ground by force of arms; in other words, they failed to secede.
Sir, armed men are traversing portions of the rebel States to-day enforcing these black laws upon men whom we have made free, and to whom we stand pledged before man and God to maintain their freedom.
The apostles introduced other Scriptures in order to maintain their errors; and to carry out this, they made use of certain Acts, which they attributed to St. Andrew and to St. Thomas.
Their protests yielded no fruit and they seized their arms, deposed the foreign governors and created new magistrates, promising, however, to maintain their devotion to the empire.
But the prince, who knew that Gerolamo was now in his power, refused his coöperation and the senate had not the courage to maintain their position.
There are always men enough to plead the cause of the rich, and to echo the woes of the fallen great; but be it your part to show compassion for those who labour, and to maintain their rights.
They prefer to maintain their greatness by justice rather than by violence, seeking to live in tranquillity, and to avoid quarrels with others.
Some have endeavoured to maintain their opinion of the first by saying that the nearer we mortals approach to God by way of imitation, the more happy we are.
They were determined to maintain their allegiance to God, and to preserve the purity and simplicity of their faith.
They sought to maintain their power, not by appealing to the Scriptures, but by a resort to threats, Rome’s unfailing argument.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maintain their" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
