Sentence examples for whose preservation from inspiring English sources

Iraq was a state imposed upon its inhabitants, a country whose preservation has cost too many lives.

The building by Mr. Williams and Ms. Tsien can be saved, and more than just its facade, whose preservation might be the museum's strategic fallback position.

The point was to emphasize the Hellenic roots of the empire, whose preservation of ancient texts, objects, and philosophical traditions — notably Platonism — might well have struck a Renaissance intellectual as its most important feature.

Sarah Kershaw (NYT) MANHATTAN: SOHO'S 'WALL' SAVED -- The Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday rejected a plan to demolish "The Wall," a seven-story sculpture built in SoHo in 1973 and whose preservation was recently championed by prominent artists.

It is in Gambia that Mr. Fleck encounters the akonting, a primitive three-string forerunner of the banjo whose preservation is the mission of a troupe known as the Jatta Family.

You could, perhaps, but it does also make you wonder about a game whose preservation is couched largely in terms of reducing the frequency with which people really play it.

Old acetate-based safety negatives are important cultural assets whose digital preservation and restoration have received relatively little attention.

The Dema became men, subject to birth and death, whose self-preservation depends upon the destruction of life.

Also fascinating is Meyer's second encounter with the novelist and painter Feng Jicai, a historic preservation activist whose book "Saving the Old Street" records his "Jane Jacampaignue campaign" to preserve his hometown.

An official of the conservancy, Alex Herrera, whose 16-building preservation list includes many that are also on the Municipal Art Society's list, said, "The conservancy believes that these structures are not obsolete, low-ceilinged disposable construction, but rather represent some of the best architecture in the area, designed by distinguished architects".

In the context of public amenities, whose benefits of preservation are not totally reflected by the market, the valuation of cultural heritage has given primacy to the contingent valuation method, with very few attempts being made to valuation via the discrete choice experiments technique (DCE).