Maintaining his clutch on the hair, Matsuo watched the closed eyes while rummaging in the jacket pockets.

* Maintaining awareness of surroundings while dealing with the threat in order to look for escape routes, further attackers, objects that could be used to defend or help attack and so on.

; Balanceboarding: Maintaining balance on a cylinder while using a board-shaped ( rectangular or oval ) object as the balancing mechanism, which is placed on top of the cylinder.

Maintaining precision while performing such interpolation is nontrivial, however ; and methods like Gal's accurate tables, Cody and Waite reduction, and Payne and Hanek reduction algorithms can be used for this purpose.

Maintaining social respectability while exercising legal rights still judged to be immoral by many was a challenge for the New Woman:

Maintaining this precise level of agony is critical, since inflicting any more pain could cause the victim to lose consciousness, while inflicting any less pain is less effective.

Maintaining a grass playing surface indoors, while technically possible, is prohibitively expensive.

Maintaining his place in the national side while competing with such players can be considered an achievement in itself.

Maintaining intensity across the southern Florida peninsula, Isbell maintained hurricane status as it reached the western Atlantic that night, but the storm began to steadily weaken while moving north.

Maintaining balance while standing in the stationary position relies on intact sensory pathways, sensorimotor integration centers and motor pathways.

Maintaining probiotic viability in moderate water activity foods ( 0. 4 – 0. 7 ) is a great challenge and solutions such as microencapsulation or incorporation of probiotics into fat phases of products can provide improved survival.

Maintaining a constant rate is essential to ensure proper size and spacing of the pits and lands burned into the dye layer.

Maintaining tight management over the data warehouse bus architecture is fundamental to maintaining the integrity of the data warehouse.

Maintaining or creating nutritional value, texture and flavour is an important aspect of food preservation, although, historically, some methods drastically altered the character of the food being preserved.

Maintaining the tip position with respect to the sample, scanning the sample and acquiring the data is computer controlled.

Maintaining the correct temperature is critical to prevent food borne illness.

Maintaining this degree of traceability requires some expense, which is why NIST-traceable equipment is more expensive than non-NIST-traceable.

Maintaining a 4: 1 accuracy ratio with modern equipment is difficult.

Maintaining a balance between short-term assets and short-term liabilities is critical.

Maintaining such a link by hand, however, is complicated, so linking to a section is still not recommended.

Maintaining security on this device is vital as major damage to it would prevent individual Corpsmen throughout the universe from recharging their power rings, thus depowering the entire Corps in a single blow.

Maintaining the relative importance of the status of French is an imperative that requires solidarity and the pooling of means and resources among countries committed to the French language within their respective societies.

Maintaining the houses by cleaning old nests is a major task for the local residents.

Maintaining its position as a confessional church body emphasizing the importance of full agreement in the teachings of the Bible, the LCMS is not associated with ecumenical organizations such as the National Council of Churches, the National Association of Evangelicals, the World Council of Churches or the Lutheran World Federation.

Maintaining the passenger train on schedule is an important function of the guard.

Maintaining a suitably steady arc distance is difficult if a constant voltage power source is used instead, since it can cause dramatic heat variations and make welding more difficult.

Maintaining a constant moisture level in firm soil is important and can be effected by appropriate landscaping and landscaping maintenance.

Maintaining transport links between Tynemouth and Newcastle is Tynemouth Metro station, originally opened in 1882 as a mainline station catering for the thousands of holiday-makers who flocked to the Tynemouth beaches.

Maintaining the height always at its minimum value is not always viable ; it can be proven that any insertion algorithm which did so would have an excessive overhead.

Maintaining some single stones until the end phase is, therefore, very often a good strategy.

Maintaining the proper charge balance, the ratio of hotmetal to scrap, is therefore very important.

Maintaining the control of Hampton Roads at Fort Monroe and Fort Wool was crucial to the naval support Grant required for the successful Union campaign to take Petersburg, which was the key to the fall of the Confederate capitol at Richmond.

Maintaining telomere length is critical for cell immortalization, a key feature of cancer.

Maintaining a high moisture content in cement during curing increases both the speed of curing, and its final strength.

Maintaining throughout his career a detachment from party, he never acted permanently or continuously with either of the two great factions, and exasperated both in turn by deserting their cause at the moment when their hopes seemed on the point of realization.

* Maintaining contact with home, through letters ( both traditional and electronic )

Maintaining the separate identities of both brands poses some unique challenges.

Maintaining both internal and external balances requires use of both monetary policy and fiscal policy.

Maintaining his unique position both as senior executive and producer at Sony, he was offered another executive position at Casablanca Records where he also wrote Lindsay Lohan's single, " Rumors ".

Maintaining a website may require frequent changes, both small and large, to the visual style of a website, depending on the purpose of the site.

* Maintaining a normal weight

Maintaining a healthy body weight through increased physical activity and appropriate caloric intake is also important.