1.   In an ironic sense, Beer declared, Britain is maintaining its leadership.

2.   Americans must maintain that leadership by adopting a first-rate insurance policy.

3.   Brazilian voters appeared to re-elect President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in the first round of balloting Sunday, thus maintaining the leadership of a country struggling against economic crisis.

4.   Couric said she was confident that the show would maintain its leadership in the morning.

5.   Dole, while not always immune to expedient foreign policy positions, has a largely responsible record and is committed to maintaining American leadership.

6.   He must first protect our national security, maintain our leadership in the world, and talk honestly with the American people.

7.   Hudson said that AMP is still committed to its strategy of maintaining its leadership in connectors, diversifying into related product and market sectors and expanding globally.

8.   I believe the United States must maintain its leadership as the only superpower in the world.

9.   If the United States wishes to maintain its leadership of the NATO alliance, it must participate in difficult and dangerous European security operations such as the Balkan interventions.

10.   Nevertheless, he continued to maintain active leadership of the syndicate from behind bars.