préserver

Ils avaient préservé la tradition contre vents et marées, recruté de nouveaux membres et, au moins dans certains cas, étaient devenus plus ouvriers dans leur composition sociale (c'était certainement vrai des Américains et des Britanniques).
They had preserved the tradition against all the odds, recruited new members and, in some cases at least, had become more working class in composition (this was certainly true of the Americans and the British).
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