Example sentences of "to maintain itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a properly organized political community the state exists for society and not society for the state ; yet , however socially advanced a people may be , the society which it constitutes made up of families , clubs , churches , trade unions , etc. — is not to be trusted to maintain itself without the ultimate arbitrament of force . |
| 2 | Like LOEX it operates on a subscription-fee basis , but unlike LOEX it has a relatively small catchment number of libraries which might subscribe , and because of this its ability to maintain itself as a self-financing clearinghouse is in question . |
| 3 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 4 | David Stirling felt that this was a waste of time and resources and that it should be possible for a large group to maintain itself in the desert for a period of several weeks . |
| 5 | It falls relatively easy prey to a large number of its predators — man , foxes , stoats , weasels , mink , buzzards and others — yet it is able to maintain itself in very significant numbers and those very numbers do , in fact , shield other important members of the British wildlife community from a high degree of predation . |
| 6 | be able to maintain itself in power by means of its organisational capacity , its ability to adapt to new forces and its dynamic positive relationship with the moral unity of society expressed through the rule of law . |
| 7 | However , Trotsky also had to affirm that although the Russian proletariat in power could win the support of the peasantry by appropriate measures , it would be unable to maintain itself in power or pass over to a socialist regime in Russia ‘ without the direct state support of the European proletariat ’ . |