7 sentences with 'retain'
Example sentences and phrases with the word retain and other words derived from it.
• « Edsel Ford was 25 years old when he became president of the Ford Motor Company on January 1, 1919, and he was to retain the position for the rest of his life. »
• « Women, feminists argued, needed economic independence, the ability to support themselves before marriage without losing status or respectability, and the right to retain the property and earnings they brought in and accumulated during marriage. »
• « Do strangers often forget your name? Perhaps you are introduced to them too hastily. If your name is spoken five minutes into the conversation, the chances are virtually 100 per cent that your interlocutor will retain it. »
• « Mountains play a very important role, as they determine the source of many rivers, contain and divert winds and rainfall, retain moisture in the atmosphere causing rain and accumulating snow, and contain mineral wealth. »
• « Culture is dynamic, it transforms itself. The elements that form it - created and constructed by people - act on the members of the society that produces it and, at the same time, human beings retain the possibility of introducing new constructions. »
• « For some historians, the explanation for these differences lies in Britain's insularity - at the time of the emergence of the modern state it was an island easily defended by a fleet - which allowed it to retain a flexible state structure. »