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Whether NMD spells No More Disarmament therefore depends on whether America strikes out alone or manages to do a stability-preserving deal with Russia: a "grand bargain" that preserves both the essentials of the ABM treaty and the hope for deeper weapons cuts.Mr Clinton says he will decide later this year whether to start building the limited anti-missile shield his officials have devised.
Perhaps Talbot's passion is a part of what really justifies the MSC because it preserves lifestyles and protects the spirit of places.
It takes in scattered sites such as the Kaiser Shipyards and the Ford assembly plant and preserves the legacy not only of the women who entered non-traditional labour for the first time, but of all those who served.
Open for breakfast and lunch, you can sit outside beneath the grape-vine framed awnings and watch life in this picturesque town go by (autumn is highly recommended for wildfire leaf colour), or dine inside the pantry among rows of handmade preserves and local wines and soak up the kitchen's hearty aromas.
I think he should sit down with supporters of the USA Freedom Act and reach a compromise that preserves constitutional rights and at the same time protects security".
Breakfast is fresh fruit, cured local meats and cheeses, home-baked breads and homemade preserves , yoghurt and cereals.
Breakfast is a big old Yorkshire farm fry-up, served with homemade preserves and local honey from the heather-clad moors.
The gravity-wave signals that BICEP2 has found slight fluctuations in the intensity of the cosmic microwave background, an all-pervading bath of radiation that preserves some features of the very early universe are but a faded palimpsest.
By reckoning the payments annually according to the tax base (rather than how cantons tax and spend) and by providing lump sums instead of semi-hidden subsidies, the system preserves cantons' freedom of action and also encourages tax competition.None of this is to idealise Switzerland.
It has fewer qualms about buying debt or, indeed, large amounts of foreign assets to hold down the Swiss franc.The deeper difference is that Switzerland is a federation that calls itself a confederation, whereas the euro pretends to be a federal currency but actually preserves 18 sets of national economic and fiscal policies.
It is to the novelist's credit that he preserves a degree of sympathy for those whom poverty pushes towards piracy, as well as for the teenagers who are brainwashed into jihadism and whose fate, should they refuse to take orders, may entail shackling and torture.The novel debunks the view that the "religionists" restored order in Somalia.
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The primary grammatical function of "preserves" is as a third-person singular verb , indicating an action of maintaining, protecting, or conserving something. As Ludwig AI points out, it is grammatically correct and widely used in English.
Expression frequency: Very common
