Preserving the role of law enforcement agencies in stopping and punishing terrorists is one of them.
Nina Fine played Laura, Tom's emotionally damaged sister, with a lovely, archlike fluidity that preserved the role's ambiguities.
The lobbying was just one factor in the House vote to preserve the role of the private companies in keeping airports safe.
If that is so, doesn't this mean that when we talk about justiciability, we must be very careful to preserve the role of the court.
Unfortunately, on the way to becoming mainstream enough for the presidency, he stopped talking about single payer and now proposes a system that would preserve the role of for-profit insurance companies, with their administrative excesses.
In the early days following Sheikh Mansour's takeover, there was much talk about preserving the role of the club's academy that then could claim to be among the most successful in the country.
Elias Zerhouni, the NIH's director, acknowledged that the step back was an attempt to "preserve the role" of these groups.Nevertheless, in the publishing arena the NIH is something of a bull in a china shop.
It was the culmination of a rancorous dispute, between French President Charles de Gaulle and Monaco's Prince Rainier over the Prince's struggle to preserve the role of his Riviera principality as an international tax haven.
He wants to preserve the role of federal courts — specifically for cases like the would-be Christmas Day bomber, who was arrested for trying to attack civilians; for American citizens; and for foreigners charged with supporting terrorist groups financially.
A less charitable view has it that he has been trying to protect the traditional elite's political and economic control over Thailand's resources to defend the status quo that another revolution, the Siamese coup d'état of 1932, once tried but failed to overcome.It appears that it has dawned on the army that Mr Suthep's bid to preserve the role of the establishment might well backfire.
