The reality is that Europe's exporters would rather preserve the single market, which has massively benefited them and us.
A further societal concern is that enhancements might undermine some essential quality of our human identity that we would rather preserve.
The good news, he said, "is that nobody is talking about tearing down historic buildings, but rather, preserving them in innovative ways".
The finance industry hates the rule and would rather preserve its ability to sell products that are, by definition, not in the best interest of little-old-lady clients.
But the Senate -- most of whose members reside outside New York City -- would rather preserve the local boards indefinitely while public hearings are held to decide how, or even whether, to replace them.
Guided by a New Zealand arborist, Paul, who confesses he would rather preserve and climb trees than follow his original career path of cutting them down, we donned our harnesses and helmets, and I prayed for a head for heights.
So, he writes, whenever religion has put down deep roots in a society, one must "guard against shaking it; but rather preserve it carefully as the most precious inheritance from aristocratic centuries; do not seek to tear men away from their old religious opinions to substitute new ones".
Unfortunately, very few ever bother to detail the forms that corruption takes, either because they don't actually know, they're too lazy to find out or, when it comes to particular players and coaches, they'd rather preserve the myth of purity.
"I love the investors we have, and I would rather preserve that than introduce risk," he says.
