This, in turn, had provoked an immense effort by the Democrats, principally associated with Bill Clinton to claw back a majority by tactical accommodations while preserving a commitment to social justice and internationalism.
The privacy interest is directly implicated, while the interest in preserving a commitment to the 'accusatorial' system is implicated in the more attenuated sense that an officialdom which has available to it the benefits of a self-reporting scheme may be encouraged to rely upon that scheme for all governmental purposes.
It was conceived in response to the state's recent commitment to preserve a million acres of open space.
"It's a commitment to preserving a tradition...
Yet an initiative -- led by France and Japan and coordinated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- has demonstrated a rare commitment to preserving a miracle of human ingenuity in a country too poor to do so itself.
His commitment to preserving a sense of mystery is understandable; for reasons besides its name and size, Threesome Tollbooth calls to mind Norton Juster's beloved children's book "The Phantom Tollbooth," in which a young boy named Milo receives one in the mail and drives through it in his child-size electric car, finding entry into a fantastical kingdom.
Senior Treasury officials, in interviews this week, repeated their commitment to preserving a major role for state regulators and prosecutors in policing financial companies, and said that those states that had more aggressive local regulation often have had fewer problems with their lenders.
At the late-night press briefing on Wednesday, the governor, a Democrat, explained his reversal as a step necessary to preserve his commitment to increase spending next year on school aid and Medicaid — the two largest chunks of the state budget — by 4 percent.
The uncertainty in the economy "makes it more important than ever" that Duke preserve its commitment to need-blind admissions, Brodhead said at a celebration on the West Campus Plaza.
We must ensure that the N.C.A.A. is able to preserve its commitment to all of them.
In challenging times, she said, "we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad".
