Sentence examples for idea of preservation from inspiring English sources

The whole idea of preservation was not something that people really understood, and of course all of the larger institutions and buildings, for the most part, fought it.

"We've always tried to market the idea of preservation of the spectacular red rock desert country in southern Utah," said Mike Reberg, a media coordinator for the alliance.

The idea of preservation is not a new one in Ridgewood; in 1983, nearly 3,000 of its buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Percy Parry of Floralands in Kariong developed the idea of "Preservation by Cultivation" and investigated the commercial cultivation of waratahs and other native plants.

Where "The Museum Project" often graphically illustrated ideas — of preservation and decay, corporality and spirituality — the new pictures subtly embody them.

In one way, The Field of the Cloth of Gold is a meditation on immigration and the contrast between conservative ideas of preservation and progressive ideas of integration.

Certainly the story of the music itself was hugely intriguing to me, but also it had all these other elements of things that I hadn't necessarily had a chance to write about before -- the ideas of preservation and obsession -- all these things that are very human impulses.

The idea of giving preservation legal weight was evolving in the late 1950s.

"The city's idea of historic preservation is to demolish its housing stock.

The idea of game preservation arose in feudal times when the right to hunt became attached to the ownership of land.

He took as his theme the idea of historic preservation — a sly, counterintuitive move, given that this was a conference about the new — and complained that contemporary culture has become so obsessive about preserving the past that we risk denying the fundamental premise of architecture, which is to build for the future.