Louis IX acted astutely, though in ways unlike his grandfather's, to preserve the prestige of France.
When I visited early this month, two weeks before harvest, Mr. Goff spoke of his determination to preserve the prestige of Lake County's distinctive appellation.
News of the accident shook confidence in the complex rescue deal patched together by Swiss government and industry leaders who had hoped to preserve the prestige and efficiency of a national airline.
Demetrius, son of Euthydemus, married a daughter of Antiochus the Great, thus preserving his political prestige.
The hunter's continual training with his implements and in tracking and stalking had a social value in maintaining group activity, earning prestige, and preserving tradition.
The Russians were supporting Bashar, in order to preserve their international prestige; Saudi Arabia was against him, in order to weaken Iran Turkeyy wanted to bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power.
And yet… in order to preserve Laborde's prestige and affirm its elite nature, a tacit pact has been in place between Laborde champions since the festival's inception: though they may go and compete elsewhere, they may never enter the Laborde festival again, or dance the solo malambo at other festivals.
1416 December 2, 1469 Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, byname Piero The Gouty, Italian Piero Il Gottoso (born 1416 died Dec. 2, 1469) ruler of Florence for five years (1464 69), whose successes in war helped preserve the enormous prestige bequeathed by his father, Cosimo the Elder.
In the public glare of Ms. Godoff's firing, Mr. Menaker is charged with preserving the glow of literary prestige around the imprint, which published William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote and a long shelf of 20th-century American classics.
Despite Asad's death a few months later, this success was instrumental in preserving Muslim rule in Central Asia, as the blow to the khagans prestige led to his murder soon thereafter and the collapse of Turgesh power.
