Through cinema, Britain grappled with the paradoxical notion that, in order to preserve its character, it had not only to fight and to win but also to abandon exactly those old decencies, those "sporting-club rules," that it sought also to protect.
It would not be a democracy or a multiparty system, but it would be able to preserve its character indefinitely as a distinctly Tibetan and Buddhist region, both inside and outside the formal Tibet Autonomous Region.
The city is preparing to weigh proposals to refurbish it as affordable housing while preserving its character.
He added that he will "preserve its character, but revamp the menu and atmosphere a bit to keep it popular for the next 85 years".
Although I would have quoted Jackson and Cheney and Clintonon, for that matter — I think the newspaper is wise to preserve its character and adapt slowly and carefully to the language around it.
Their vision is to modernise the town while preserving its character.
Our residents are fiercely proud of their village and work hard to preserve its character".
Even as the city government races to preserve its character, its courtyard houses are being converted into boutique hotels and fashionable restaurants.
Greektown preserved its character more effectively than many other parts of Chicago in the recently fizzled building boom, said John Theoharis, co-owner of two restaurants on Halsted and president of the Greektown Association.
A century ago, with American development going into hyperdrive, it might have seemed impossible that Santa Fe, a little city 10 miles from the railroad, could both grow and preserve its character.
In an interview with the newspaper Haartez published on Friday, Mr. Arafat said more emphatically than before that he understood that Israel must preserve its character as a Jewish state.
