Sentence examples for he preserves himself from inspiring English sources

He knows his job, he really does what you ask him to do and he preserves himself.

("Grace had me pinned in the parlor, talking about the superiority of European lace, while Dr. Hemingway hovered with a plate of cheeses and beets he'd preserved himself, from his garden in Walloon Lake").

The individual egoism of the Ethics plays itself out in a pre-political context the so-called "state of nature", a universal condition where there is no law or religion or moral right and wrong as the right of every individual to do whatever he can to preserve himself.

Thus he preserved for himself the role of leader, while assigning a managerial role to Mbeki.

He is not so badly preserved himself.

He dropped out of the Olympics, presumably to preserve himself for the U.S. Open, but now he won't be in New York for the first time since 2002.

Seeking to create a more open and prosperous Soviet Union through glasnost and perestroika, Gorbachev ended up unleashing forces that swept away the country he had sought to preserve and himself from power.

Not himself an able historian, he nevertheless preserved much information of value by his transmission of earlier sources.