Word: maintained
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Individually, the cast is solid. But by the third act and hour, their inability to fully connect with each other makes the play's building tensions difficult to maintain. The final scene, in which Blanche struggles with the other characters to hold onto her fantasies, suffers from this tendency. We have never really believed anyone on stage is inhabiting the same world to begin with...
...resolution asks that the City Council "urgethe Governor to appoint to the court instead anindividual capable of being impartial who willseek to maintain democratic rights rather thanrestrict them...
...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a staunch protector of our rights as citizens, has taken an uncharacteristically unprotective stance on the right to keep and bear arms. They reason that the Second Amendment was created to give states the right to maintain a militia to protect them from federal tyranny. It does not guarantee an individual right to bear arms...
Federal Courts have supported this view. In U.S. v. Warin, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, "Since the Second Amendment...applies only to the right of the State to maintain a militia and not to the individual's right to bear arms, there can be no serious claim to any express constitutional right to possess a firearm...
...biggest mistake, say some legal experts, may have been in talking too freely with the jurors in the first place. "Judge Ito has had more conversation with the jurors than is typically the case,'' says Steven Penrod, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota. "Some judges would maintain a greater distance. I think it's clear that they don't hold him in reverence, as most jurors do with the judges they encounter.'' But Thomas Hafemeister of the National Center for State Courts, who studies jury stress, believes Ito has been doing the right thing to avoid...