What was the harm in it, as long as he strove to maintain his distance?
I resist the impulse to put my foot down and maintain a steady pace.
The ripple was still there, but she could see he was determined to control it, determined to maintain his unruffled appearance.
Compelled to maintain a place in line, I hoped to be a buffer between the man and the people in front of me in case he pulled out his gun.
We tried to maintain a friendship, but we were both secretly upset with the other for not trying to make a long-distance relationship work.
Would he be able to continue to work with the Elders, to maintain the pretense of a relationship with his mother, all while concealing his knowledge that they had conspired to murder his father?
Or did they prefer to send away the most gifted in order to maintain a firmer grasp on the less able, more controllable Enforcer Adepts?
Her father had to believe that he knew everything there was to know about her, and she took great pains to maintain the ruse.
At some point, you had to give in if you wanted to maintain your sanity as a parent.
The breeze little by little swelled into a tempest, and it was to be feared that the Henrietta might not be able to maintain herself upright on the waves.
