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We will do everything to preserve peace.

It's like she's preserving it as a keepsake.

They are in a separate room where the temperature is controlled, to preserve the old paper in them.

You know, they have been preserved that way.

But I figured they all deteriorated before the technology was invented to preserve them, or you know, make copies.

The clay tablets usually were not fired; sun drying was probably reckoned enough to preserve the text for as long as it was being used.

Several dinosaur fossil localities preserve coprolites.

Accepting that they are the best preserved and most visible signs of what was a global creative explosion, how do we start to explain their appearance?

Cuneiform writing lasted for some 3,000 years, in a vast line of succession that ran through Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Nineveh, and Babylon, and preserved for us fifteen languages in an area represented by modern-day Iraq, Syria, and western Iran.

These underestimated the actual age by factors of 10 to 50 because much of the sedimentary record is missing in various locations and because there is a long rock sequence that is older than half a billion years that is far less well defined in terms of fossils and less well preserved.

Stomach contents are only rarely preserved, but when present, allow us to determine exactly what these animals were eating.

In a few rare cases, most of them “mummies” (unusually well preserved specimens), fossilized plant remains have been found inside the body cavity of hadrosaurs.

The first was the discovery of a 1,000-square-kilometer preserved patch of Beringian vegetation dating to just over 17,000 years ago—the peak of the last ice age.

The plants were preserved under a thick ash fall from a volcanic eruption.

You know, they have been preserved that way.

Their artistic endeavors have been preserved in paintings of wild animals, cattle, goats, humans, and scenes of daily life that extend back perhaps to 5,000 B.C..

On occasion, animals and plants have been preserved after becoming immersed in tar or quicksand, trapped in ice or lava flows, or engulfed by rapid falls of volcanic ash.

Replacement can be a marvelously precise process, so that details of shell ornamentation, tree rings in wood, and delicate structures in bone are accurately preserved.

Another type of fossilization, known as carbonization, occurs when soft tissues are preserved as thin films of carbon.

Although it is certainly true that the possession of hard parts enhances the prospect of preservation, organisms having soft tissues and organs are also occasionally preserved.

Insects and even small invertebrates have been found preserved in the hardened resins of conifers and certain other trees.

Soft parts, including skin, hair, and viscera of ice age mammoths, have been preserved in frozen soil or in the oozing tar of oil seeps.

The probability that actual remains of soft tissue will be preserved is improved if the organism dies in an environment of rapid deposition and oxygen deprivation.

Among the superbly preserved Messel fossils are insects with iridescent exoskeletons (hard outer coverings), frogs with skin and blood vessels intact, and even entire small mammals with preserved fur and soft tissue.

Different ratios in the shells preserved in various layers of sediment reveal the temperature changes in the oceans during the Pleistocene epoch.

About two hundred years later in the 12th century, this parchment manuscript became a palimpsest when a scribe used the parchment to make a prayer book, so the pages, the pieces of parchment themselves, had been preserved, but the Archimedes text was erased and written over and no one knew it existed.

Long-handed Neolithic spoons of yew wood preserved in Alpine villages dating to 3000 B.C. have survived; the signs of rubbing on their left side indicate that their users were right-handed.

Ir is found in high concentrations in some meteorites,in which the solar system’s original chemical composition is preserved.

Data from diverse sources, including geochemical evidence preserved in seafloor sediments, indicate that the Late Cretaceous climate was milder than today’s.

As soon as the oxygen is gone, decay stops and the remaining organic matter is preserved.

Since the beginning of history, salt has been the only means of preserving meat, fish and vegetables.

So what actually was true was this: In order to have meat for the winter, people would preserve it in salt, not a spice.

The association was set up to preserve the character of the village.

The leaders of the coup tried to preserve the illusion that they would continue Gorbachev's policies.

I like to make puree, using only enough sugar to preserve the plums.

Embalming was not designed to preserve the corpse in perpetuity.

The making of foreign policy is largely the preserve of the president.

Pantanal is one of the world's great wildlife preserves.

The store cupboard was full of preserves.

The estate has a game preserve.