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He has dedicated his life to the preservation of nature.
Jealousy is the undue concern about the preservation of that which can only be lost if not worth keeping.
There are preservation miracles.
Turan was among the Etruscans, in northern central Italy, the goddess of fertility and preservation.
If the difference between order and chaos or preservation and ruin were the same as that between high mountains and deep valleys, or between white clay and black lacquer, then wisdom would have had no place: stupidity would also have been alright.
What is your opinion about language preservation?
The supply of game for London is going steadily up. Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life.
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When a client is to be buried au naturale - that's without preservation - it is imperative that the casket is airtight to slow down the decomposition process.
This is contrasted with his present mood. which is so low that even the instinct for self-preservation is lacking.
I do not share your passion for self-preservation.
Mutual self-preservation.
Would you have imagined, my good Lord Mayor. were't not, by great preservation. we live to tell it you. the subtle traitor this day had plotted in the council house. to murder me and my good lord of Gloucester?
The art of self-preservation.
Preservation of the species.
We bless Thee for our creation preservation and all the blessings of this life but, above all for Thine inestimable love and redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of grace and for the hope of glory.
That indicates a strong instinct for self-preservation.
My strong instinct for self-preservation.
You're a Quaker and you're dedicated to self-sacrifice while I'm dedicated to self-preservation.
And myrrh, for preservation until time everlasting.
You haven't much faith in Ian's infallible self-preservation, have you? Mmm?
We believe in self-preservation.
This is contrasted with his present mood, which is so low that even the instinct for self-preservation is lacking.
Manuela, even a man desperately in love has the instinct of self-preservation.
Most important to him, of course. would be the preservation of your name and fame.
Equine preservation.
Is this the Society for Preservation of Eskimo Culture?
You seem to look down on the instinct of self-preservation.
And the Society for the Prevention of Distorting the Truth in Fairy Tales, and the Committee for the Preservation of Sanity to Married Men.
We destroyed your space buoy as a simple act of self-preservation.
I distorted a fact in the interest of self-preservation for my holy cause.
However, I would assume that her instinct for self-preservation would take over to prevent it.
Uncertain, captain. Dr. McCoy's analysis of her reaction assumes that her instinct for self-preservation would prevent it.
We must wait to see whether her instinct for self-sacrifice has become stronger than her instinct for self-preservation.
They've lost what people often lose - their instinct for self-preservation.
SECRETARY: The Historical Monuments Preservation Society wants you to address their annual meeting on the 10th of January.
The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life!
The Northern Society is for the preservation of the monarchy.
No, self-preservation.
It's self-preservation.
They are programmed for self-preservation.
News and current affairs
If world leaders take advantage of cost-benefit analysis to separate the wheat from the chaff, the next 15 years could be a boon for global development - including the preservation of biodiversity.
Even the preservation of the market itself requires more than self-interest: market participants compete to win, and if they could, would eliminate competition.
The final pitfall is excessively rapid depletion of oil or mineral deposits, in violation of optimal rates of saving, let alone environmental preservation.
You call it The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
But these complaints fail a vital diplomatic test - preservation of national dignity, prestige, and the honor of one's citizens.
Eisenhower was right about something else, too: America's military strength depends on preservation of its economic strength.
The state can support its development, preservation, and renewal, but cannot compel its existence.
These should have included stricter building codes, smarter evacuation policies, and better preservation of wetlands (which could have reduced the ferociousness of the hurricane).
These efforts can serve as a prototype for assisting other countries such as Guyana, where the current forest-preservation scheme does not work so well.
It suffers from less inequality than many advanced industrial countries (though more than Canada and the northern European countries), and it has had a longer-standing commitment to environment preservation.
But, because China has ratified UNCLOS and the US respects it as customary international law, there is a basis for serious direct negotiation over clarification of the ambiguous nine-dashed line and the preservation of freedom of the seas.
That difference helps explain the relatively greater preservation of Tunisia's social structures and local traditions.
The main danger for today's stabilization period concerns the functioning of democratic institutions and the preservation of freedom of speech.
But that doesn't mean that issues involving the preservation of life (or a way of life), like defense, should not be subjected to cool, hard economic analysis.
There is no clearer example of this than the TPP, which almost certainly constitutes the single biggest threat to the preservation - or creation - of any signatory country's middle class.
A majority of Israelis would probably back a preventive attack on Iran and satisfy themselves with the preservation of the status quo in relations with the Palestinians.
These were added to a revised treaty in 1972 by a convention on seal protection, followed, in 1980, by a convention on wildlife preservation.
Indeed, nuclear weapons appear to be the regime's only real route to self-preservation.
Moreover, the Cold War never ended in East Asia, requiring the preservation of a US-led security system centered on the US-Japan alliance - an alliance that appears to presuppose a pliant Japanese political system.
Thatcher was always hugely supportive of the preservation of Hong Kong's rule of law, civil liberties, and democratic aspirations.