"retain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Any new system is also likely to retain provisions for roughly 100 national-constituency seats awarded on a proportional basis.
- The new rules retained provisions for aesthetics, but allowed the contests to be judged as physique contests.
- The constitution, however, retains provisions that would legalize the potential reintroduction of conscription.
- It retained provisions from the colonial charter such as the substantial property qualification for voting and the ability of the governor to prorogue the legislature.
- One was whether to retain vague provisions that prohibit unfair competition (and that Farmland feared would be used to curb newcomers).
- The Greens insist that the new law retain provisions allowing dual citizenship.
- In September 1988 the House voted 216 to 166 to retain restrictive provisions, limiting Federal abortion aid only to women whose lives are endangered.
- The revision would retain provisions permitting spouses to testify in crimes in which they or their children were the victims.
- I think it is important to retain and reinforce provisions on the prescribing of certain routes for the transport of dangerous goods.
- The Bush administration proposed to drop the consent requirement while retaining other provisions, often in a revised form.
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