verb

definition

To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

definition

To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

definition

To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

Examples of maintain in a Sentence

He was trying to maintain a balance between taking care of business and her happiness.

Standing her ground was the only way to maintain control.

Of course, they can't maintain that for a long stretch.

To maintain our operations, three more.

He'll have to trust you to maintain absolute secrecy.

We might wipe out the threat to the north and maintain that route, but it would take away from defenses elsewhere.

Desperate to maintain her position as her people's protector and outlive those threats hedging closer, she washed her face and changed clothing to prepare for her return journey.

While there was a feeling of last-guy-in-turn-off-the-elevator, the Deans reluctantly agreed that some form of management was necessary to maintain order in the face of the ever-increasing numbers who wallowed in nature's wonders.

Howie didn't like the arrangement but realized we couldn't commute back and forth every weekend and maintain a life.

While we reveled in our triumphs, we knew in our hearts we couldn't maintain our present pace.

You… you're meant to maintain a vital balance in this world.

Whatever control they hoped to maintain slipped.

It was imperative to maintain enough control to keep from hurting or biting her.

Her first glance at Nicholas' face told her that he had only come to fulfill the demands of politeness, and she firmly resolved to maintain the tone in which he addressed her.

Nations will maintain their own traditions, holidays, music, idioms, diets, and a thousand things that make them different from other nations.

We all agreed it was healthy to try and maintain a life outside this business.

Our friends had a good start and were able to maintain it, for with their eight wings they could go just as fast as could the Gargoyles.

They are very expensive to build and maintain.

He must maintain a strictly impartial attitude of body and mind, accept no presents from the people of his district, and render judgment only when he is in a normal condition mentally and physically.

How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?

No; we promised to maintain your privacy but is that the best course?

I just had to promise not to discuss the matter and keep an open mind—which I always maintain anyhow.

It is true that our best authority, Arrian, fails to substantiate the traditional view satisfactorily; on the other hand those who maintain it urge that Arrian's interests were mainly military, and that the other authorities, if inferior in trustworthiness, are completer in range of vision.

It may be true, as some maintain, that language cannot express to us much beyond what we have lived and experienced; but I have always observed that children manifest the greatest delight in the lofty, poetic language which we are too ready to think beyond their comprehension.

See! she said, but could not maintain herself on her toes any longer.

Damian issued few clean-up orders, for there was no way to maintain the discretion his Guardians needed to mask their shadow operations protecting humanity.

Listen, Kris, I'm not trying to be an ass, but logistically and in practicality, there's no reason for us to maintain the Council.

If he replied and argued, it was only because he wished to maintain his independence and not submit to Speranski's opinions entirely.

She'd built up a callus around her heart, one that got stronger and easier to maintain as she manipulated evil men.

Secular education has been vigorously opposed by strict churchmen, and efforts have been made to maintain separate schools under church control.

I'll write it in general terms, speculating on how difficult it is to maintain both lives, operating one incognito.

The first was to maintain enough control to avoid crushing them in the heat of passion.

It had to be difficult to maintain any semblance of authority with a toddler clinging to his face, but he managed to do it.

Dean cried, struggling to maintain his precarious position.

He needed distance in order to maintain control of the emotions thundering through him.

On his release he had promised he would maintain the treaty of Arras and withdraw from the Netherlands; but he delayed his departure for nearly a year and took part in a punitive campaign against his captors and their allies.

The Primitive Methodists in Ireland were a small body who in 1817 seceded because they wished to maintain that close connexion with the Church of England which existed at the time of Wesley's death, but in 1878 they rejoined the parent body.

Royal honors were attributed to the pope (Article 3), who was ftirther guaranteed the same precedence as that accorded to him by other Catholic sovereigns, and the right to maintain his Noble and Swiss guards.

Schmidt and Ficker, however, maintain that the Acts were written about 200 and in Asia Minor.

Albert and Aquinas alike maintain the beginning of the world in time; time itself only exists since the moment of this miraculous creation.

On the 1st of August 1907 the Belgian minister in London transmitted to Sir Edward Grey a draft, additional act prepared by the commission for carrying out the proposal of His Britannic Majesty's government, and on the 28th of August following an additional act was signed at Brussels by the plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties, by which they undertook to maintain the convention of the 5th of March 1902 in force for a fresh period of five years.

The Republican machine finds it easy with the support of the millionaire summer colony at Newport and the street railway corporations to corrupt the French-Canadians and a portion of the native element in the rural towns and maintain absolute control of the state government.

She was strong enough to maintain her position during a long illness in 1677, and a visit to France in 1682.

The rationalist spirit is, of course, coeval with human evolution; religion itself began with a rational attempt to maintain amicable relations with unknown powers, and each one of the dead religions succumbed before the development of rationalist inquiry into its premises.

The election took place on the 4th of June, when 152 votes out of 196, four being absent, determined that Leopold should be proclaimed king of the Belgians, under the express condition that he "would accept the constitution and swear to maintain the national independence and territorial integrity."

They were especially to maintain the Christian character of the schools.

However, when I have thought to indulge myself in this respect, and lay their Heaven under an obligation by maintaining certain poor persons in all respects as comfortably as I maintain myself, and have even ventured so far as to make them the offer, they have one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor.

Sherard Cowper Coles patented a process in which, working with a high current density, a lead anode is used, and powdered zinc is kept suspended in the solution to maintain the proportion of zinc in the electrolyte, and so to guard against the gradual acidification of the bath.

In the depression between the Bureya range and the coast ranges it suffers greatly from the heavy July and August rains, and from inundations, while on the lower Amur the agriculturists barely maintain themselves by growing cereals in clearances on the slopes of the hills, so that the settlements on the lower Amur and Usuri continually require help from government to save them from famine.

The national government is forbidden to interfere in the peculiar affairs of the states except to repel foreign invasion, to maintain a republican form of government, to re-establish order at the request of a state, or to enforce federal laws and sentences.

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