Its isolation allowed it to survive untouched and safe from the Cultural Revolution.
The same system of privileges survives almost untouched.
One possible reason this lamppost has survived untouched for so long is that it was built on a street corner that does not exist.
Although the whole surrounding landscape was transformed into farmland, the Kleczanów Woods survived untouched.
They didn't hemorrhage-- as far as we know-- they survived untouched.
Had nothing survived untouched?
But he survives untouched, apparently, a family man with "kind eyes," as the book's concluding page puts it.
A few very small colony worlds survived untouched, but most don't have populations greater than a few thousand, and no industry to speak of.
Yuri Konev survived untouched.
Others inexplicably survived untouched.