In a European union, each member will retain its national parliament and cultural identity.

Unusually, each member of the family retained the second name Floris rather than a patronym.

Both recommended that female members of the imperial family should retain their status after marriage.

He said the key members of his cabinet would retain their posts.

The members have also retained three major public relations concerns in recent weeks.

Current members of the university community retain little about them, or in some cases forgetting their existence.

A disfellowshipped member retains church membership but loses certain privileges.

However the 79 Group's members mostly retained their offices within the party.

It had a federal assembly, but the individual members retained their independence.

Many members have retained their membership after leaving the area.