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re·tain·ing

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  1. Lloyd Austin:

    Retaining Bagram would have required putting as many as five thousand U.S. troops in harm's way, just to operate and defend it. And Retaining Bagram would have contributed little to the mission that we had been assigned, and that was to protect and defend our embassy which was some 30 miles away, staying at Bagram -- even for counter - terrorism purposes -- meant staying at war in Afghanistan, something that the President made clear that he would not do.

  2. Gerry Laderman:

    I would say that is really not a factor in decisions on retaining aircraft or ordering new aircraft.

  3. Francis Bacon:

    If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

  4. Peter Long:

    We are not looking at an option in terms of not retaining those businesses within the portfolio.

  5. Chris Salisbury:

    (Popularity) is personality-driven and Turnbull, for at least more people, seems to come across favorably, but I don't know that it necessarily translates to any greater chance of success for the coalition retaining government.


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  • बनाए रखने कीHindi
  • தக்கவைத்தல்Tamil

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