Huang's utter lack of instinct for self-preservation has had the curious effect of preserving himself against any harm.
He is not so badly preserved himself.
"Khodorkovsky preserved himself," Mr. Berezovsky said, almost admiringly, to a columnist for Forbes's Russian edition on Friday, the day before his apparent suicide.
He dropped out of the Olympics, presumably to preserve himself for the U.S. Open, but now he won't be in New York for the first time since 2002.
("Grace had me pinned in the parlor, talking about the superiority of European lace, while Dr. Hemingway hovered with a plate of cheeses and beets he'd preserved himself, from his garden in Walloon Lake").
Unlike the other Yankee starters, Cone uses spring training to rebuild his arm strength, rather than begin throwing in early January, to preserve himself for the last months of the season.
Whereas Perseus, abounding in wealth, would not preserve himself, his children, and his kingdom, at the expense of a small part of his treasure; but chose rather to be carried away with numbers of his subjects with the name of the wealthy captive, and show the Romans what great riches he had husbanded and preserved for them.
Duncan said some of the jurors had a problem accepting the testimony of Rick Gates, Manafort's former right-hand man, because he was testifying as part of a plea deal and "would have done anything that he could to preserve himself".
The whole idea of Depp evolving into some HAL computer with his lovely chops on the screen is a less attractive idea than, say, Derek Zoolander doing the same thing, preserving himself for all time within the top-secret research division of his Institute for Kids Who Can't Read Good.
And so Spinoza sums up his account of virtue like this: "the more each one seeks his own advantage, and strives to preserve himself, the more he is endowed with virtue, or what is the same, the greater is his power of acting according to the laws of his own nature, that is, of living from the guidance of reason.
