Being attached to the Navy and operating with it at Navy Yards, Naval Stations and on board ship its medical officers are supplied by the Navy, for the Corps maintains no sanitary service of its own.
The United States, on the other hand, maintains such a small and inadequate army and navy that our men in uniform are really more like curiosities to the people than anything else.
Unless the person so governed constantly maintains a system of rebellion in thought or deed, the soul gradually becomes debased, and the finest principles of human nature suffer a rapid process of disintegration.
He maintains then that such a prothesis vase was the first sepulchral monument, that this was later replaced by a vase of the same description in marble, of course on account of the fragile nature of pottery.
Let us now clear up the mystery, and explain how the Digger maintains himself.
Along its western shore roams the fierce unconquered Goajiro, who, a true warrior, still maintains his independence; and even encroaches upon the usurped possessions both of monk and "militario.
Several sows and an indefinite number of sucking pigs could not make a greater noise, and Tom himself declares he studied the instrument in a pigsty, which he maintains gave the first notion of an organ.
Pescatore (Die Glossen des Irnerius, Greifswald, 1888) maintains that Savigny overstates the difference between the interlinear and the marginal glosses of Irnerius.
Thomas Aquinas authoritatively reasons thus, and Dante maintains that as the unifying principle is Will, the will of one man is the best means to realize it.
Tyranny hates it, because the Bible so strongly maintains the individual value and rights of man as man.
The Bible maintains the true "final cause" of all nature to be, not its material and special adaptations or its value to man, but the pleasure or satisfaction of the Creator himself.
It maintains and nourishes itself on this tension of mind, this restless anxiety which it takes for infallible signs of a superior capacity.
At times I have felt sure that she loves another; or is she right when she maintains that she cannot love?
Elfrida Klausenburg maintains the contrary; the dear girl is charmed with your constant cheerfulness; she raves of the 'perpetual sunshine of your soul.
He maintains that one is so often cheated in money matters.
From which again it follows, that this constancy must cease so soon as the condition which maintains it ceases--i.
Indeed, he goes as far as Wagner, for he maintains that in no case can there be divergence or multiplication of species without isolation.
Per contra, I have to note the opinion of Mr. Wallace, who steadily maintains the impossibility of any cause other than natural selection (i.
From which, he says, it follows, that this constancy must cease so soon as the condition which maintains it ceases--i.
In the one, sail held the first place; in the other, steam; and it is the idea which really denotes and maintains intellectual movement and material progress.
So there were Victorys, before the one whose revered hulk still maintains a hallowed association; but her individual connection with one event has set her apart.
Odowalsky knows how to make himself at all times indispensable to him, removes the Russians to a distance, and maintains his overruling influence.
He still maintains his position as absolute ruler, and has faithful servants around him; but already he is discomposed by evil tidings.
Besides flocks, Estremadura maintains huge herds of swine, which feed on the sweet acorns and chestnuts of its woods, and whose flesh is renowned through Spain.
The vast body of water, with such tremendous depth, maintains too high a temperature to be affected by surface reductions in temperature.
For God has brought us to their lands, in order to watch over them, and maintains us here for love of them.
The city owns and maintains five bridges across the Cedar river.
Mrs. Shields maintains that she was the first legally qualified person to teach in the public schools of Cedar Rapids, according to the laws then in force in the state.
Mention must also be made of the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City interurban line, which maintains an excellent hourly service between the two cities.
The best civilization is that which maintains the highest standard of life for its average citizen.
The music of this dreamy dance has the most astonishing progressions, but at the same time maintains an imposing solemnity.
But Ortrud maintains her position, and actually defies Elsa to ask the hero his name.
She wished it impressed that, whatever her innovations, she maintains a reverence for all of the composer's work.
After this strange recital of Elsa's, Frederick still maintains his charge against her, and states as her motive for the crime that she hoped to gain the throne.
Their philosophy accordingly only exaggerates a little when it maintains that their individual souls are all manifestation of a single spirit, the Earth-spirit.
This principle is precisely that of the transcendental philosophy where it maintains that there is but one spirit in all men, and one logical moral evolution for the world.
It maintains the irregularities and accretions in building which are, as it were, the outer shell of antiquity in a city.
He maintains that the same thing happens to Buckingham in Henry VIII and to Barnavelt.
Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch.
The present leadership favors close ties to France, which maintains a significant military presence in the country, but is also developing stronger ties with the US.
And here he maintains the right of every citizen to leave his country, and that the state retains no right over those it has banished.
Harvey is the author of a treatise on generation, wherein he maintains that all animals, including men, are derived from an egg.
He maintains the right of giving an asylum to the banished, but not of receiving large bodies of men who abandon their country.
In this hemaintains the bold contempt of justice and humanity in political emergencies which had brought disgrace on the Prince of Machiavel, blaming those who, in his own country, had abandoned the defence of the St. Bartholomew massacre.
In nature itself, he maintains as before, there is neither perfection nor imperfection, neither good nor evil; but these are modes of speaking, adopted to express the relations of things as they appear to our minds.
In the third book of the second part of the third section of the Physics, he treats of the immateriality, and, in the fourteenth, of the immortality of the soul, and maintains the affirmative of both propositions.
Nicolas Antonio, to the disgrace of his judgment, maintains this with the most extravagant eulogy on Gongora; and Baillet copies him; but the next age unhesitatingly reversed the sentence.
Hurd justly maintainsthe obvious construction of that passage: “notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum.
He expressly maintains the Copernican theory, but admits that it was generally reputed a novel paradox.
Suarez maintains it to be of the essence of a law that it be exacted for the public good.
In the concluding sections he maintains the right of particular churches to admit all who profess the Apostles’ creed to their communion, and of private men to communicate with different churches, if they require no unlawful condition.
When there is only one pawn left in endings of R against R, the weaker side maintains the draw, if the King can command the queening square.
K-B2, because White maintains the opposition, and Black cannot get through at K6 or Kt6.
It would have been better, of course, to continue developing with Kt-B3, which at the same time maintains the pressure on Q5.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maintains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
