Sentence examples for human treasure from inspiring English sources

His books, a unique mixture of history, archaeology, general culture and travel, helped open up to the West the human treasure of a continent too often called dark.

It's not too late for President Bush to go on television and level with the American people about what the war in Iraq is costing the nation in human treasure and cold hard cash.

When Page Parkes — who calls scouting "a human treasure hunt" — visits the home of a 15-year-old named Gillian, the girl's father, Jim, asks, "Did you just upset our world over here?" Gillian's meet-cute with destiny isn't as bumpless as portrayed on this show.

Ronay Menschel and her army of smart, cheerful workers in the field are having the best of it, as are the countless other nonprofits like Phipps that, even as I write, are laboring all over desolated New York neighborhoods to excavate buried human treasure.

I wonder what the answers would be if each American asked himself or herself the question: "How is the war in Iraq helping me?" While the U.S. government continues to pour precious human treasure and vast financial resources into this ugly war without end, it is all but ignoring deeply entrenched problems that are weakening the country here at home.

Human treasure Lorde appeared on the "Tonight Show" Thursday and finally revealed the truth: That she was, in fact, behind a much-buzzed-about Instagram account devoted to reviewing onion rings from various restaurants around the world.

Fourteen years ago, the government of France established Maîtres d'Art, a state-funded initiative to support its artisans, officially recognizing them as "living human treasures".

We might think it absurd to look at such supreme human treasures and ask which artist is best – but that was what the Florentine republic tried to establish, by getting them to work at public expense on competitive battle paintings, Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari and Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina, for the Great Council Hall of the civic palace.

Doudou N'Diaye Rose, who has died aged 85, was Senegal's most famous percussionist, known as the "mathematician of rhythm" and praised by Unesco as a "human living treasure" for his role in preserving his country's culture and passing his skills on to future generations.

As Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald, noted, "Testimony at pre-trial hearings showed U.S. interrogators saw the 15-year-old as a human intelligence treasure trove because as a child his family had spent time with the family of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan".

Exemplary human being, treasured friend.