"preserve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But instead of merely preserving the skulls and bones found in dry sites, oxygen-poor peat bogs preserve skin, hair and sometimes brains.
- Mr. Kim's offer to allow two United Nations inspectors to remain in the country did constitute progress, but merely preserved their previous status.
- Unlike you, however, they had among them a very creative officer who commanded in the situation, instead of merely preserving himself.
- Failing to build an antiballistic missile system for fear of another arms race merely preserves the outdated cold-war paradigm until the inevitable day when the bomb is used again.
- We can not merely preserve every one of them in aspic.
- "And surviving doesn't mean merely preserving your own life, but also passing it down through the generations."
- He therefore gave no sign of life on this occasion, merely preserving an air at once perfectly noble and expressionless.
- She was merely preserving her status with Li Huang in pretending to stop the fugitives.
- I have said from the beginning that I am opposed to radical experiments, but also to merely preserving the status quo.
- But civil-rights organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P., said that it merely preserved the status quo.
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