6 sentences with 'preserving'
Example sentences and phrases with the word preserving and other words derived from it.
• « Louis XIV created important theatre companies, founded France's first scientific academy and supported the Académie Française, the body dedicated to preserving the purity of the French language founded earlier by Richelieu (during Louis XIV's reign, the Académie published the first official dictionary of French). »
• « Subsequently, conservatives themselves began to adopt some of the trappings of nationalism in the name of preserving their own power; as discussed below, the most notable successes of nineteenth-century nationalism, those of Italy and Germany, were led by conservative politicians, not utopian insurgents. »
• « Persia was saved from royal invasion in large part because of what one British diplomat called the "great game": the battle for influence in the region in the name of preserving British dominance over India on the one hand, against the expansion of Russian power on the other. Neither European power would allow the other to actually take control of Persia as a result. »
• « It is true that the French and British wanted to avoid full-scale war at any cost; their civilian populations were totally opposed to war and, especially in France, their governments were unstable and unpopular. Thus, the British and French political leaders did not think that their concessions to Hitler would collapse: they thought of them as preserving the peace. »
• « In some cases, such as Dutch control of Indonesia and French sovereignty in Indochina, European powers clung desperately to colonies in the name of preserving their geopolitical importance. »
• « He is in charge of reintegrating and preserving the tools and clothing of Otzi, the ancient frozen corpse found in Italy. »