The term has acquired a popular and frequently secular use to describe some sort of renunciation or giving up of something valuable in order that something more valuable might be obtained; e.g., parents make sacrifices for their children, one sacrifices a limb for one's country.
I get insanely angry and usually break something valuable.
Specifically, in the void of institutional recognition, participants turned to obtaining recognition primarily through their immediate networks (love) and where available, through avenues to contribute something valuable to a larger project (solidarity).
But Johnson adds something valuable.
We lost something valuable when this stopped.
They will feel like they're doing something valuable".
Something valuable has been made out of virtually nothing.
They might learn something valuable in the process.
"It was not thought of as something valuable, something you wanted to carry on to another generation".
"I want to speak when I have something valuable to say".
