rescuer

Examples of rescuing

rescuing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

There's something quietly satisfying about rescuing fine articles from obscurity and running together quite different arguments unexpectedly.
Nudging the calf towards the prey item is more likely to fit the definition of teaching than rescuing a stranded calf.
Seen in this light, being alternative is not about being cussed for its own sake but a means of rescuing architecture from itself.
Further more, rescuing previous texts from oblivion was common practice among many nineteenth-century naturalists.
Nonetheless, the book is a valuable contribution to rescuing the 1960s from nostalgia-mongers and despisers alike.
If he refrained from rescuing when this cost him nothing, this would indicate that he intended the death of the one to save the five.
Clearly we would want to start by rescuing the prisoners according to some principle.
Society is prepared to invest vast amounts of resources in rescuing mountaineers who encounter difficulties, or those who are missing at sea.
Some nineteenthcentury architectural gurus believed that quality resided in the crafts that were capable of rescuing architecture from an increasingly threatening industrial world.
Do firms with unique competencies for rescuing victims of human catastrophes have special obligations?
We may harbor a fantasy of "rescuing" the patient f rom death.
In time, the program grows more selfsufficient and inter-referential, supplying itself with new hypotheses and data needed for rescuing old hypotheses.
Clearly one could argue that rescuing the most worthy individual is the right thing to do because it would have desirable consequences.
This conceptualization of politics as a complicated web of interrelated practices offers historians the advantage of rescuing politics from the monopoly of the elite circles, parliamentary debates, and governmental decrees.
We also stand some chance of rescuing the debate from being a narrow and irresolvable conflict between personal interests and the interests of society as a whole.
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