Example sentences of "can maintain their " in BNC.

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1 The result has been that the minority Free Democrats ( FDP ) , with only 79 seats in the Bundestag , can maintain their grip on the balance of power for decades .
2 In Buxtehude , the most common measure is to ensure that the crossing cycle lane is conspicuous , as seen in ( Figure 6.17 ) , with the priority to the right rule giving added protection and often ensuring that cyclists can maintain their pace .
3 He has become a scapegoat and an excuse , so that romantic writers can maintain their vision of a lost golden age .
4 Either they can maintain their expectations and seek new ways of meeting them .
5 Alternatively , socialist parties can maintain their ideology intact , keeping the class ready for a revolutionary opportunity but see their support possibly dwindle to restrictive ‘ ghetto ’ status .
6 The ability to become this smiling persona in public is helped by the nature of bulimia which is a disease where sufferers can maintain their normal body weight — unlike its sister illness , anorexia nervosa where you slim to skin and bone .
7 Although social classes change over time , they are able to reproduce themselves to the extent that they can maintain their distinctive position in the social structure within and across generations .
8 Because all pages are saved in the same file data and formulae can maintain their relationships across multiple pages .
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