But instead of merely preserving the skulls and bones found in dry sites, oxygen-poor peat bogs preserve skin, hair and sometimes brains.

Mr. Kim's offer to allow two United Nations inspectors to remain in the country did constitute progress, but merely preserved their previous status.

Unlike you, however, they had among them a very creative officer who commanded in the situation, instead of merely preserving himself.

Failing to build an antiballistic missile system for fear of another arms race merely preserves the outdated cold-war paradigm until the inevitable day when the bomb is used again.

We can not merely preserve every one of them in aspic.

"And surviving doesn't mean merely preserving your own life, but also passing it down through the generations."

He therefore gave no sign of life on this occasion, merely preserving an air at once perfectly noble and expressionless.

She was merely preserving her status with Li Huang in pretending to stop the fugitives.

I have said from the beginning that I am opposed to radical experiments, but also to merely preserving the status quo.

But civil-rights organizations, including the N.A.A.C.P., said that it merely preserved the status quo.