His father ran a small dress factory and maintained a good standard of living for the family.

Until recently, his uncle and father had maintained a distant relationship.

"My father could maintain fifteen or more," the large woman bragged.

My father worked for Edsel, and always maintained it was a good car.

His father, born in what would later become Ontario, maintained a family milling business.

His father became a mining engineer and maintained an interest in medicine.

"Or are you unwilling to consider all alternatives, and let your father maintain control?"

This time I could be myself, which my father had always maintained was the best thing to be.

Those kind of Christians, his father had always maintained, were just pathetic.

He grew up on a small farm which he helped his father maintain.