Sentence examples for for which precious from inspiring English sources

To stand much chance of re-election in 2000 he would need to preside over a strong economic recovery, for which precious little time remains.Health aside, Mr Yeltsin might face a legal obstacle.

Wittgenstein turns to the idea of a science of aesthetics, an idea for which he has precious little sympathy ("almost too ridiculous for words" [Wittgenstein 1966, 11]).

1. Mo'Nique, after winning a Golden Globe for her performance in "Precious," for which she also received an Oscar nomination.

Then Lee Daniels came to her rescue in 2009, scraped off the slap, stripped away the sequins, encouraged a light moustache and cast her as a social worker in Precious (for which she won proper awards).

And she didn't judge Mary Lee Johnston, the verbally and physically abusive mother in 2009's "Precious" for which she won an Oscar.

Now that the election is over it's time to look at one state that was able to take a very important step, a step for which is has received precious little publicity notwithstanding the step's importance.

In this summer of our discontent, one of the most precious freedoms for which we must all fight is freedom from this last prejudice.

And the new government will have to tackle it: the separatists plan yet another referendum, to redress their hair's-breadth defeat in 1995 a defeat for which Mr Chrétien could claim precious little credit.

It was to foster and protect the kind of values for which a philistine social order had precious little time.

Having quit the court of Sayf al-Dawlah, the poet arrives full of hope and hyperbolic praise: O father of musk, the visage for which I have been yearning, The precious moment that is my dearest wish.

Then Lee Daniels was nominated in 2010 with "Precious," the film for which Geoffrey Fletcher won Best Adapted Screenplay.