Sentence examples for conserve rather than from inspiring English sources

Like the party she leads, Merkel is a small "c" conservative, i.e. a pragmatic politician who wants to conserve rather than shape.

Because the station is a landmark, the imperative is to conserve rather than to replace.

If you're out to conserve rather than transform, you can take a more relaxed view of things.

Having established exactly what the burial site contains, they hope to create a plan to conserve, rather than restore or retouch it.

The Dalai Lama reportedly admonished the monks of the ancient Dhankar Monastery, in Himachal Pradesh state, asking them to conserve rather than rebuild, a directive they heeded.

Therefore, if careful examination of the evolutionary record were to reveal a significant tendency for gene fusion events that conserve rather than modify existing protein-complex assembly pathways, this would strongly support the importance of ordered assembly for the formation of functional protein complexes.

Because I mostly remained in place, with my leg propped up, I wound up conserving rather than burning calories, and thus failed to shed my extra layer of fat.

A vaccine might therefore offer the opportunity to alter the patterns of CTL immunodominance seen in natural infection by predetermining memory responses against epitopes that are highly conserved, rather than those with the highest affinity [16] or other immunodominant properties that do not limit escape.

Again it is structure that is conserved rather than specific atomic interactions with most bases.

In most SWEET genes, the second TM domain was found to be conserved rather than the first domain.

Thus, the genes that control key physiological processes in bear hibernation tend to be more conserved rather than fast evolving.