Improvement is a satisfiability preserving relation: improvement of constraint set (P) is the process of finding a least general substitution (S) such that (S,P) preserves the set of satisfiable instances of (P) [3].
All the same, the British government's response was to seek to preserve relations with Putin, and to avoid any public accounting of what had occurred.
The MoD had asked for the evidence and judgment in the case to stay secret to protect national security and preserve relations with the Afghan government.
When the force settled the case in 1990, they did not mention any such acceptance of wrongdoing and said the settlement was mostly done to preserve relations with mining communities, and move on.
The collision of Chinese and American military aircraft in 2001 led to a crisis that was defused only because then-President Jiang Zemin was determined to preserve relations with Washington.
A blueprint, backed by everyone from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, would allow Israeli globalists to argue that the die is cast; that the situation in Gaza must be changed; that they alone can preserve relations with Washington and save Israel from international isolation.
Putting a best face on the North Korean disregard for the Feb. 29 agreement, an Asian diplomat with long experience in dealing with North Korea, who requested anonymity to preserve relations with officials in Pyongyang, said it was possible that Mr. Kim, a Foreign Ministry official, was not told of the North Korean's military plans for a satellite missile launching.
In Bahrain, as in Egypt and Tunisia, the United States finds itself again torn by its desire to preserve relations with autocratic leaders who back American foreign policy interests and by the danger of further alienating Arab public opinion by failing to promote democracy.
"We went on an office outing to see the film," says Mr O'Brien, "and we found ourselves sitting right in the middle of our target audience".The "yes" campaign hopes to win over floating voters by pointing out that the constitution and Europe go together, and that a "yes" vote is more likely to preserve relations with Europe as they are already.
He said Netanyahu used the Holocaust as a political tool — accusing Iran, his main enemy, last month of wanting a second Holocaust, while exonerating Poles, in a bid to preserve relations with their government.
