Sentence examples for were to preserve from inspiring English sources

"We're keeping the windows the way they were to preserve the names".

Their basic functions were to preserve the Islamic nature of the state and to rule and defend the empire.

He went on: "It is obvious if the purpose of the injunction were to preserve a secret it would have failed.

It has used 6.3 billion SDRs of this in the Russian bail-out, leaving it (by the end of the year) with a liquidity ratio of 29%, which the Fund's boffins argue is a minimum.If it were to preserve the liquidity ratio at that level, then by the end of 1998 the IMF would have no usable cash left except the 10 billion or so SDRs that can still be borrowed from the reserve tank.

"It would be quite wrong if we were to preserve a special place within the law, where the net could be outside the law.

It would be, without a doubt, an Emmy Award winning hit if HBO or Netflix were to preserve it as a television special.

"It is to preserve the heritage," Mr. Carlos said.

One challenge is to preserve foreign aid.

Ahmad's job was to preserve them.

"The whole point is to preserve stability.

It is to preserve the free market".