Sentence examples for Precious knowledge from inspiring English sources
The Holocaust on Trial (Granta £17.99, pp343) demonstrates the extraordinary nature of the human personality; that with education, information and historical example, it is still possible to bend and distort precious knowledge to evil ends.
I wonder how long their precious knowledge will be valued by a military and a country that already show signs of wanting to consign Iraq to the memory hole where, three decades ago, Vietnam disappeared.
"We are living in a world where flow will prevail and topple any obstacles in its way," says Hagel. "As flow gains momentum, it undermines the precious knowledge stocks that in the past gave us security and wealth.
"PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGE," Thursday on PBS's "Independent Lens" series (check local listings), takes a look at how a Mexican-American studies program in Tucson was affected by state legislation to abolish such initiatives.
The man was everywhere, nattering on in his homely way, scattering words like so much grass seed and gazing off mist-eyed into the middle distance whenever he came up with a particularly tasty truism... Attenborough's hushed, professorial whisper always gives the impression that he's happy to be dispenseing precious knowledge,... Titchmarsh is more insistent.
Scientists might be worried about bats, for example, but have precious little knowledge about the physiology of their viruses.
So she settles back down to imagine where they will go out to play on this gorgeous day while she sits alone with her precious, bitter knowledge.
There are few signboards and precious little knowledge about this place: it remains enigmatic and unknowable, rather like the descendants of its original inhabitants.
English settlers at Jamestown came with precious little knowledge of the land they were to colonize, let alone the particular practices of native peoples of coastal Virginia, collectively named the Powhatans.
Contemporary America emerged from that multiracial stew, a nation peopled by the heirs of that agonizing time who struggled and strived with precious little knowledge of their own origins.
