Example sentences of "of saving [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 2 | Many hon. Members believe that the Secretary of State should immediately instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position urgently and in detail , so that we can discover whether there is still some possibility of saving something from this awful mess . |
| 3 | For this means that ‘ the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from … their legislators , whenever they shall be so foolish , or so wicked , as to lay and carry on designs against the[ir] liberties and properties ’ . |
| 4 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 5 | Month by month , the chances of saving anything from the wreckage of Bosnia grow less . |