• And this is the reason why the wearing of the burqa has become a necessity, more to preserve women from malicious eyes than to spare men the temptations of infinite allurements.

    NPR: 'The Swallows of Kabul' Book Excerpt

  • They looted everything, but not before he had returned to make one mad effort to save some of his academic books - an effort to preserve something from a more sane past.

    BBC: Studying history at Kabul University

  • The project aims to transform society through music, reflecting the idea that orchestral and choral practice gives children and youth important values and helps preserve them from the dangers of drugs and crime.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Those with more than a superficial view of American national security, who would defend and preserve it from the fire next time, have by necessity divided their forces in advocacy of its various elements, but they have neglected its essence.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • From above, it looks like a manta ray rising from the earth and was built to preserve the viewshed from the west, where the structure stands in front of the Camino Real historic trail.

    BBC: The futurist: The sustainable Spaceport America

  • Ideally situated between San Francisco and San Jose, it's 15 minutes from four 18-hole golf courses, a short drive from Purisima Creek Open Space Preserve and five miles from tourable Filoli one of the finest remaining country estates of the early 20th century, boasting a 36, 000-square-foot Georgian country house and a spectacular 16-acre English Renaissance garden.

    BBC: Daily deal: A Proven?al two nights in San Francisco

  • Nor do farmers, many of them rock-ribbed Republicans, readily acknowledge that the windbreaks and other conservation projects started by the CCC helped preserve the land from devastating erosion.

    FORBES: New Geographer

  • There was some good news and some bad news last week in the struggle to preserve Western civilization from the insidious efforts of Islamofascists to penetrate, adulterate, and ultimately destroy it.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Good news, bad news

  • Doing so would legitimize the use of chemical weapons, letting regimes that hold power by force know that they can use the world's most reviled weaponry to preserve their rule from internal challenges.

    CNN: Obama must act on Syria chemical weapons

  • Mega has a generous level of storage (50GB for free users) and is promising a network of servers around the world to preserve data both from data loss and from the likely legal action. because hovering over Mega is the continued discussion over the court actions around Megaupload.

    FORBES: The Three Keys To Making Mega An Acceptable Cloud Storage Service

  • Dozens of pandas were moved to Bifengxia from another preserve, Wolong, after its habitat was wrecked by the 2008 quake.

    NPR: China Rushes Relief After Sichuan Quake Kills 180

  • However, it also helps to preserve knowledge that we gather from many different sources, in different modes of interaction.

    FORBES: Reevaluating Performance Management

  • Then Flinders, who had looked unconvincing thus far, blocked a close range effort from Imrie to preserve Falkirk's lead.

    BBC: Inverness CT 1-1 Falkirk

  • Set in precolonial Nigeria, "Things Fall Apart" portrays the story of a farmer, Okonkwo, who struggles to preserve his customs despite pressure from British colonizers.

    CNN: 'Things Fall Apart' author Chinua Achebe dies at 82

  • Rules meant to preserve competition will prevent Telus from buying any newcomers' spectrum until early 2014, and Mobilicity left the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association just this week while accusing the industry group of being a puppet for bigger networks like Telus.

    ENGADGET

  • Antoinette Kotula from the school's Preserve our School Transport Committee, said a further 100 to 150 cars also drove to the school from other areas of the county.

    BBC: Parents protest over Luton council's faith school bus cuts

  • Germany has fought hard to preserve a law that protects Volkswagen from foreign takeovers.

    ECONOMIST: European economies

  • "The first thing to do is to preserve the building and the site from other development, " he said.

    BBC: Wellington Clifton cinema restoration plans

  • They wanted to preserve the U.S. from a Japanese-style funk following the bursting of the stock-market bubble in 2000--01.

    FORBES: Glitter

  • Although Lviv has more than 600 cafes, Internet is often missing from their menus to preserve the Medieval theme that appeals to many tourists and local artists.

    BBC: Tracing the coffee house revolution to its Ukrainian roots

  • Aside from the potential for decreased store traffic, the company would likely have to deal with increased competition from rivals attempting to preserve market share.

    FORBES: Yes, Virginia, Macy's Is A Good Buy

  • The theory behind stop-loss orders is that they enable you to avoid a meltdown in the stock, and thus they protect you from a loss or preserve your profit.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • We see that story: Orlean (Meryl Streep) tags along with John Laroche (Chris Cooper), a Florida man who was arrested while stealing a rare form of orchid from a state wilderness preserve.

    NEWYORKER: Adaptation

  • But they may feel, as I do, that unions are increasingly an anachronism serving mainly to protect workers from market forces, preserve a failing status quo, fund union leaders and support Democratic politicians.

    FORBES: Right-To-Work Shifts America

  • But Crawford and his colleagues believe the answer is to search for clues in relatively recent lava flows, because once cooled and covered over, they could preserve the mark of cosmic rays from the time they were exposed.

    FORBES: Ancient Supernova Explosions Left Their Scars on Earth

  • Almost 30 years ago, the Consumer Electronics Association fought and won a similar battle to preserve the first-sale doctrine from legislation that would have choked off the market for movie rental and would have impeded the development of innovative devices.

    FORBES: Supreme Court Gives American Consumers Victory Over Copyright Owners in Kirtsaeng vs. John Wiley & Sons

  • Slumped, pitted, cratered, they seem to preserve the primal character of the earth from which they're made.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | The Subtle Magic of Koetsu

  • Its boffins in Bangalore are working on projects ranging from a red laser to preserve food to a DNA nano-machine to deliver drugs to precisely the right spot in a patient's body.

    ECONOMIST: Crazy-talking boffins

  • When it comes to marathon swimming, there's an even stronger argument for staying with the pack: It allows you to prevent others from drafting off you and preserve their strength at your expense.

    WSJ: Menu

  • Cuzco and the old villages still retain traces of land occupation from the Inca Empire to preserve, in a more global manner, an archaeological heritage which has become susceptible to the effects of urbanization.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

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