Sentence:  `` Emory could not <WSD>continue</WSD> to operate according to its present standards as an institution of higher learning , of true university grade , and meet its financial obligations , without the tax-exemption privileges which are available to it only so long as it conforms to the aforementioned constitutional and statutory provisions '' , the statement said . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  continue a certain state, condition, or activity