"maintain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She was rid of her Russian control, well able to maintain a small army to protect herself.
- Maintaining an army put a lot of financial stress on the countries and empires.
- During the 1860s conscription was seen as an effective way to maintain an army.
- It is also the only house allowed to maintain an active army.
- Why does it need to maintain a gigantic army?
- "Every spy we've sent into the area reports that they maintain only a small permanent army."
- It's not as if we were maintaining a real army.
- Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.
- But difficult it was, always, for Washington to maintain an army.
- And if each family grew their own food, how could the government ever produce enough of a surplus to maintain an army?
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