Richard rolls up his sleeves and joins in - and discovers that the volunteers and the local community have all banded together to help preserve the church - undertaking tasks like using traditional lime mortar in repointing work, improving the drainage around the building and using traditional lime washing techniques inside the church itself.
This implementation features a transparent load balancing scheme to exploit the computation power of networked workstations, an atomicity-guarantee mechanism to preserve the high-level task abstraction.
Although the Sikorskis tried to patch the roof and preserve the crumbling Hawkins house, the task proved too daunting, and it sat derelict for a half-century.
Along with this comes a second task: to preserve the single market, by far the EU's greatest achievement of recent years.
And all the while, aides said, Mr. McGreevey has been fiercely focused on, among other things, the creation of the state's new stem-cell research institute, security measures for the Republican National Convention next week, plans to preserve the Highlands region and a task force to study a constitutional convention on overhauling the state's property tax system.
Among Oskar's many, many rules for his houseguest — feed the cats, replace any coffee you drink, don't play the piano — is one imploring him to take extra care to preserve the French oak floors, a task at which he fails spectacularly.
In the struggle for life, it is medicine's task to preserve the conditions of a life sufficiently viable to give rise to a veritable existence, and not to seek to avoid death indifferent to the conditions of the existence that ensues.
A rebel commander stood next to Mr. Tarhouni — both wore hard hats — and said that he had assigned rebels specific tasks to preserve the facility as loyalist troops fled, and that "now it's my job to give it back".
In exile, the Dalai Lama began the task of trying to preserve the culture of the Tibetan people and publicise their plight on the world stage.
Vesty was held up, Wasps' crucial losing bonus-point was preserved and the task facing Newcastle on Saturday became considerably harder.
Their most important task is to preserve the network of subsidies and import restrictions that protect domestic commodities, from sugar to milk to peanuts, from foreign competition.
