Sentence examples for like a valuable from inspiring English sources

But looked at another way, it also seems like a valuable window into Cheney's operational code.

He thought about that for years, and it came to feel like a valuable guiding principle for fiction as well.

For the St Mirren fans, of course, each minute that passed without sustaining damage would seem like a valuable gift.

Now that the same drugs used for treatment look like a valuable tool to prevent infections, the financial shortfall will only grow worse.

On the other hand, I don't fully understand the logic of insisting on a Grand Bargain, precisely because (as you suggest) it makes the debt ceiling seem like a valuable tool.

She said that he did not speak with a Bosnian accent, and that he seemed like a valuable member of the small alternative-medicine community here, not someone who could have been the force behind the notorious Srebrenica massacre and the deadly siege of Sarajevo.

Matthew Ronay's sets, which consist of flimsy cardboard lockers, record bins, tennis nets and the like, make a valuable contribution to setting the mood, especially when one of them tips over, presumably by accident.

It was a heartbreaking defeat for Palace, who had looked like escaping with a valuable point as they battle against relegation.

If there was no reasonable transport plan, she said that a valuable commodity like oil would somehow flow to where it was needed (and could be sold) — perhaps by even less palatable routes.

"I stress, I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed, some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity".

The London mayor said he did not believe that economic equality was possible, adding: "Some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity".