Marber preserves the basic narrative.
And in Passaic County, a court-appointed monitor is deemed necessary to preserve the basic right to vote.
One board member told me that it was essentially too late, but that the new plan should at least preserve the basic layout of the few surviving hutong.
I'm sure you agree that we must do so in a way that preserves the basic constitutional rights that there are -- heart of our democracy.
Sometimes a critic has to step forward to nip a programming trend in the bud, in the interest of preserving the basic tenets of civilization.
Mr. Flanders closed the city's library and community center last month and said he had to preserve the basic city services that remained.
"For Moscow, its most important feature is the endorsement of a very gradual process that preserves the basic structures of the regime and in which the leader is not unceremoniously kicked out".
But unlike a single stand-alone bill, it would preserve the basic logic of comprehensive reform – start legalising those already here, while firmly shutting the door on the flow of future illegals.
Bob Bauer, who served as White House counsel under Barack Obama, noted, in a piece for JustSecurity.org, that the Supreme Court has upheld campaign-finance restrictions on foreigners because of the importance of citizenship in preserving "the basic conception of a political community".
Like the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who wanted to fix the Communist system rather than end it, these opposition figures want to preserve the basic tenets of their hybrid religious-civilian state.
