Sentence examples for preserved the possibility from inspiring English sources

While in captivity he wrote in his diary, later published as a book, that he was glad the marines had held their fire and thus preserved the possibility of getting home.

"They settled on a strategy that actually was pre-emptive, but didn't use military force to do it, and thereby preserved the possibility for the Soviets to back down," she said.

Federalists are pleased that they have preserved the possibility of eventually merging the presidencies of the commission and the council, so creating a single president of Europe.And the rest of the institutional stuff?Probably the biggest single issue for the small countries was that every country should retain the right to have its own commissioner.

On the other hand, by deciding that an EST sequence does not provide an adequate written description of a claim directed to "a gene," the PTO has preserved the possibility for a gene itself to be patented once its full-length sequence is determined.

By helping overthrow Snow and assassinating Coin, Katniss has preserved the possibility of Panem transitioning to a representative form of government, but at a tremendous personal cost.

He won with dummy's king, preserving the possibility of subsequently finessing the nine, and led to his spade king.

But in his final months in office Mr. Clinton still has an important role to play in containing the conflict and preserving the possibility of future peace.

Even if there were no more pressing reason to vote, there is always the one inviolable reason, which is to preserve the possibility of voting.

He felt that Lumenus, by withdrawing its request, was preserving the possibility of future success, through a process that would include input from teachers and parents.

Given all that, Mr. Obama has decided to leave American destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea to preserve the possibility of a military strike.

In both books, many bad guys die, along with a few good ones, but enough survive to preserve the possibility of yet another sequel.