Sentence examples for preserve a certain from inspiring English sources

The Passion, dealing with Jesus' last hours and death, must preserve a certain decorum.

They preserve a certain electricity by refusing to resolve these life materials into a single, coherent narrative.

Unlike Europe's cities, which have been able to preserve a certain identity and cultural distinctiveness despite the homogenizing forces of globalization, most Chinese cities suffer from a drab uniformity.

Unlike the traditional clubs in this city, bastions of exclusivity and homogeneity engineered to preserve a certain social order by keeping, as The Times also noted, "new and different people away," the Core club is a democratic place.

And so to take your second question first: if you ask why I stuck to the first person rather than moved to third, the answer would be to preserve a certain strategic intimacy.

The answer came back that, without the intelligence provided by America, Britain would be instantly reduced to "the same position as other European members of NATO in other words, to the second rank of world intelligence powers.But Britain's spy agencies preserve a certain cachet.

The director, Patrice Chéreau, preserves a certain mystery: the bodies are penetrable but not knowable.

And Radio 1 likes to see itself as preserving a certain moral tone among its pupils: standards must be maintained.

When George walks through the snow toward the crash site, not only are his pants perfectly creased but even the corpse preserves a certain je ne sais quoi.

In the central and southern regions, there are still people who have preserved a certain cohesion through following a seminomadic way of life.

Whereas the Sounders-Timbers conflict has become the most publicized in MLS and the geography of Seattle-Vancouver preserves a certain trans-border enmity, the Whitecaps' meetings with the Timbers fail to resonate beyond the clubs' fanbases.