maintained
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To date, almost all states have maintained their previous mandates or otherwise decoupled their policies from the federal recommendations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
He expects the business trust’s management to address whether its distribution per unit can be maintained in the medium-to-long term at its Tuesday results briefing, flagging the trust’s sequentially higher net debt-to-Ebitda ratio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The president then turned his attention to Washington’s federal parks, complaining about patches of dead grass and offering advice about how they should be maintained.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Japan's constitution renounces offensive military force, and successive governments have maintained a decades-old pledge not to possess nuclear weapons, produce them or permit their introduction into the country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
“I have maintained for years,” Moore wrote, “that one hundred well-disciplined persons could break the backbone of segregated travel in North Carolina in less than a year.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
