maintain

IPA: meɪntˈeɪn

To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
To keep in good condition and working order.
(obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

Examples of "maintain" in Sentences

I hope NASA can maintain is current structure for the time being.
It's a different question if what you are actually trying to maintain is never ending ending growth and stock price increases.
And, come to that, what relevance has such a poll to Intelligent Design, which some commenters here still maintain is a scientific endeavour?
However, it was a huge disappointment when stacked up against Through the Looking Glass, which I maintain is probably the greatest hour of television of all-time.
Proponents of the term maintain that it must be realistically acknowledged that those who have power and benefits from racial privilege in a racist society is primarily white
What I did say and do maintain is that formerly all objects displaying specified complexity (and particularly that subset of symbolic information) were recognized in an uncontested way as obviously the artifacts of intelligent agency.
Proponents of the term maintain that it must be realistically acknowledged that those who have power and benefits from racial privilege in a racist society is primarily white, and that the term “person of color” is a better generic term for those who are racially underprivileged than “black person” as it includes ethnicities other than those strictly of African descent.