The state still maintains population rates above the national average.

The state has maintained its early commitment to public education.

Other states maintain similar systems, but some are more complicated.

States had to build a nation, maintain national security and rely on themselves.

For example, he said, Congress should not require states to maintain their current levels of welfare spending.

In this way the state maintains a 1,000-member reserve force that is paid only when needed.

Republicans say states will maintain standards for the quality of care.

Private health care is rare, as the state maintains a near monopoly.

Many states also maintain their own state defense forces.

However, the various states always maintained their own laws to an extent, and still do so in modern federal Germany.