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Example sentences for "maintain"

Lexicographically close words:
mainsprings; mainstay; mainstays; mainstream; maint; maintainable; maintainance; maintaine; maintained; maintainer
  1. The following is an illustration of the method of treatment in such a case, and in order to make the matter clear, the title-page is set out in full as before.

  2. This idea, though it crops up from time to time, has now no novelty about it, though recent inventions in type-setting machines have certainly given cause for its reconsideration.

  3. Author, Title, and Subject catalogues in a single alphabet.

  4. The narrative works of Kleist maintain the same high level as his dramas.

  5. But while we maintain that the Reformation was at Berne, as elsewhere, a truly christian work, we are far from saying that it was not useful to the canton in a political sense.

  6. This did not prevent the sly Erasmus from exclaiming: "Luther's affair is called a tragedy, but I maintain it is a comedy, for each act of the drama ends in a wedding.

  7. An obstinate disputant might also maintain this expression of our Saviour to his mother, Behold thy son, pointing to St. John.

  8. Ignorant men, conceited townspeople, who would not even maintain their ministers--these were the members of the Church.

  9. Rome will never give them up, for it is they which maintain her cardinals and her courtiers, with their luxury and their kitchens.

  10. The author took advantage of it to maintain that the minister, charged with spiritual matters, should not interfere with those which are temporal.

  11. We agree," said they, "that the penance imposed by the priest does not procure remission of the guilt of sin: but we maintain that it is necessary to obtain remission of the penalty.

  12. But we maintain that without the Holy Ghost he cannot do what is righteous in the sight of God.

  13. It was of the greatest importance for the Romanists to maintain the meritorious influence of works: all their system, in reality, was based on that.

  14. The great care of the driver is to maintain discipline, keep the dogs from shirking, from tangling up, and from attacking himself or each other.

  15. Under the pressure of his growing cares, he found himself, however willing, as unable to maintain his eldest son in London as he had previously been to discharge his expenses at Leyden.

  16. The public exchequer will not maintain our domestic garrisons; they would exhaust it: we ourselves have not the means to do it without ruin, or, which is more inconvenient and injurious, without ruining the people.

  17. I am of opinion that if a man have sufficient to maintain him in the condition wherein he was born and brought up, 'tis a great folly to hazard that upon the uncertainty of augmenting it.

  18. I can maintain an opinion, but I cannot choose one.

  19. Modern geographers may maintain (as what will they not maintain?

  20. Putting these things together, English officers maintain that Gibraltar cannot be taken by all the powers of Europe combined.

  21. I promised you a pension; and, not wishing to maintain you in absolute idleness, I lay upon you these absurd and trifling duties.

  22. I swear to you, if you do not succeed, I will withdraw my protection from you; you will be only a poor student, and must maintain yourself by your studies.

  23. I shall not follow my father's example, who once asked you how much it required to maintain worthily a cavalier of rank, and you assured him that a hundred thousand thalers was not sufficient.

  24. Will you at last assume this mask, and contradict the principles which you have striven to maintain during your whole life?

  25. No one, however, can maintain that the hair grows unless we are in a happy and contented mood.

  26. It was evident that two powers were struggling with each other; one endeavouring to maintain regular discipline, the other following only the impulse of an unsteady and overbearing temper.

  27. Wealth alone can maintain the superiority that bravery has asserted.

  28. The disposition now manifested by the citizens appears to be to act upon the defensive, but at all hazards to maintain their rights.

  29. He was a bachelor and had various vices; he therefore concealed his life carefully, knowing well how to maintain his position by flattering his superiors.

  30. Pascal, the porter, with whom I have been careful to maintain good relations, I entered the household of Monsieur Picot.

  31. This only hastened the end of the brave patriot, who has been called the "Last of the Greeks," because he was the last to try to maintain his country's independence.

  32. Thebes was the main power in Greece after the brilliant victory at Leuctra, and for a short time the city managed to maintain its supremacy.

  33. The Spartans were proud of having reached such a position, and were eager to maintain it at any cost.

  34. The Indians, who were traveling with him, told him to go through Tlascala: a small republic which had always managed to maintain its independence against Mexican arms.

  35. Thus, harassed upon every side, the Cholulan townsfolk could no longer maintain their ground.

  36. To maintain rights, rules of conduct are established, not by formal enactment, but by regulated usage.

  37. The right and its co-relative duty are inseparable parts of a relation that must be maintained by government; and the relations which governments are established to maintain may be treated under the general head of rights.

  38. As to suffrage, whatever the colored man's theoretical right, "you will never be able to secure it and maintain it for him, except by making him so intelligent that men cannot deny it to him.

  39. Its basis was force, and it would use whatever force was necessary to maintain itself.

  40. You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people do crucify their feelings, in order to maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union.

  41. The Republicans coupled with the supremacy of the legal majority in the nation the right and obligation of the majority to maintain the personal freedom of the negro, except where the Constitution allowed the States to maintain slavery.

  42. And, with that purpose at heart, they were ready to maintain the national unity at whatever cost.

  43. Only in the Senate did the South retain an equality of power, and, to maintain at least this, by the accession of new slave States, was an avowed object of Southern politicians.

  44. Will they forever maintain a suffrage-test of race rather than of property and intelligence?

  45. You ought to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people do crucify their feelings in order to maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union.

  46. He was true to the principle he had laid down in his inaugural,--to maintain the essential rights of the national government, but with the least possible exercise of force.

  47. One was love of the united nation and ardor to maintain its union.

  48. The true sportsman's interest in the improvement of the equine race was by no means sufficiently widely diffused to maintain the hippodromes of the Sociétés de Course.

  49. The duke, Jean de Brabant, arrived to maintain his sister's innocence in the lists; if he were vanquished, she would be burned at the stake.

  50. The tyrants, in their struggle to maintain their power at home and increase their prestige abroad, inevitably resorted to the approved expedient of the usurper, territorial aggrandisement.

  51. He loved independence, however, and the concessions that were necessary in order to maintain the favour of his patrons evidently galled him, as is shown by the passage just cited.

  52. There are some who think that whatever is difficult for them must be impossible for others; they must measure others by themselves, in order to maintain their superiority.

  53. Others maintain that they could cite many and weighty references in the histories, which go to substantiate this opinion, if it were only permitted them to speak freely.

  54. I cannot maintain that I have actually reached the haven, but, like sailors caught in a storm out at sea, I have found my way to the leeward of an island, so to speak, where I am protected from the wind and waves.

  55. Prophets could not maintain the truth of their own mission--could not declare that the word of God was speaking by them and in them--without falling into it.

  56. Thoughtful students maintain that the story belongs to this Gospel, though they cannot tell to what part of the book it should be transferred.

  57. His Gospel is the answer to this denial, because it begins from the divine ground, and shows how impossible it is to maintain that ground, unless we believe in the Word made flesh.

  58. One set is eager to maintain that what they call the Logos-idea must have been derived from a great mystical speculator, and cannot have presented itself naturally to an ignorant man.

  59. Some will say that the first three Evangelists maintain the one doctrine, the fourth Gospel the other.

  60. Those who maintain that it is dangerous to attempt any revision of our present translation of the Scriptures are fond of two arguments especially.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maintain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    maintain himself; maintain order; maintain peace; maintain the; maintain their; maintain them; maintain themselves