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  • verb Present participle of salvage.

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Examples

  • Catholic leaders would get over their parochial preoccupations, "they could play a central role in salvaging Mr. Obama's health-care programme."

    Health Care and the Common Good 2009

  • Catholic leaders would get over their parochial preoccupations, "they could play a central role in salvaging Mr. Obama's health-care programme."

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • Namah Śivaya has such power, the mere intonation of these syllables reaps its own reward in salvaging the soul from bondages of the treacherous instinctive mind and the steel bands of a perfected externalized intellect.

    Om Namah Shiva !!! « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • And oral informants all agreed that, whether or not they were directly involved in salvaging efforts, women had no moral dilemmas about using any items brought home from a wreck, but were instead ruled by pragmatism and a desire to give some small extra comfort to their families.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Over-zealousness in salvaging items from a wreck was the more common accusation leveled against the people of the southern Avalon.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Although our progress in finding and developing blight-resistants is not as striking as might be hoped something has been accomplished, and the idea of salvaging useful nut and timber chestnuts from available material and developing better ones than now exist should not be abandoned.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920

  • I love the idea of salvaging vehicles, restoring them, and putting them to good use.

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

  • Councilwoman Shelley Midura, who had championed the Halfway House's restoration, jumped at the idea of salvaging the building if possible.

    New Orleans Saints Central 2010

  • The other was vigorously in support of the idea of salvaging the baby.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • While the water in the tub keeps draining out at a slow yet consistent pace, I now tackle the last and final chapter of my Poseidon Adventure, namely salvaging the soaking wet carpet.

    247Gay.com 2008

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