Consequently the meters are now obsolete and maintaining them was becoming increasingly difficult, particularly in sourcing spare parts.

As for public tertiary institutions, Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) maintains a campus downtown and facilities in other parts of the city and surrounding region.

Al Qaeda was headquartered in the Sudan from approximately 1991 until approximately 1996 but still maintained offices in various parts of the world.

And the Government is unable to maintain an effective presence in large parts of the countryside.

People usually married within their own clan, and the caste system was thus maintained in the same hereditary form as in most other parts of India.

Castor, who professed to being shocked at the guilty verdict, maintained her innocence during the on-air 20/20 special, as well as in unaired parts of the program.

The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts continues to maintain lodges in other parts of the world.

The INLA maintains a presence in parts of Northern Ireland and has carried out punishment beatings on local alleged petty criminals.

Yugoslav national army troops are maintaining order in parts of the region.

The aid outlined by the Commission will not make it possible to maintain production in parts of the Union where the whole social situation is very finely balanced.