Housed in temporary dormitories, they live in the shadows of this duplitecture, a haunting reminder that the historic structure and temples Suzhou is actively preserving were often built using enslaved labour: after the completion of the iconic Tiger Hill pagoda during the Northern Song Dynasty (959-961AD), its 1,000 workers were put to death.
The Heart Health Counts program was most effective with those individuals classified as Health Preservers, a group whose beliefs included a commitment to actively preserving their health.
While other former fishing and shipping ports have withered, Astoria, a town of about 10,000 just two hours northwest of Portland, has actively preserved its on-the-waterfront identity.
His specifically Daoist writings emphasize the importance of both "mystery" (xuan 玄) and emptiness (xu 虛), and all-embracing unity, which the Daoist must actively preserve by meditation practices, techniques of "preserving the essence" (bao jing 保精) and consuming medicinal herbs (fu yao 服藥).
Over the past several years, as Sufi shrines have come under widespread attack in Mali, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Pakistan, and Kashmir, Turkmenistan has been actively embracing, preserving, and promoting its Sufi heritage.
So why is it that only a tiny fraction of Internet companies works actively to preserve the global platform for innovation on which they all depend?
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which was not involved in designating the building a historic structure, is actively seeking to preserve similar structures around the country.
Conservation groups are actively working to preserve this fragile monument, where ancient havelis, or merchants' houses, with lacelike screen walls of wood or stone crowd narrow lanes.
For Spinoza consistently regards sane human beings as finite modes who, beyond merely not trying to kill themselves, actively try to preserve themselves.
And the few of us who actively fight to preserve the rights enshrined in the Constitution (a group whose numbers continue to shrink) do so knowing that in the long run, we may be fighting a losing battle.
Treatments were actively maintained to preserve initial composition, with 99% effectiveness, and such sustained disturbance may have resulted in communities that are more susceptible to invasion than naturally assembled communities.
