Sentence examples similar to precious action from inspiring English sources

The 68-year-old Austrian believes water scarcity is perhaps the biggest threat facing humanity and while governments and businesses are finally waking up to this, precious little action is being taken.

Precious little action takes place onstage: Alessio's family laments its loss in a series of dolorous recitatives, and the future saint turns up incognito to prevent them from seeking him out.

But without their key striker Vedad Ibisevic, who cannot get a start under Stevens, hasn't scored in 15 months and has become a constant bone of contention in the press conferences – "When will you ask why he didn't play?" Stevens demanded of the reporters on Friday – there's precious little action in the box.

If that flashpoint stirred the home crowd, there was precious little action to excite them for the remainder of a scrappy first half.

There was precious little action at the other end, England earning just one penalty corner of their own and barely registering a shot.

Ramatlhakwane may be rusty after seeing precious little action at club level due to contractual rows, while locals tip defensive midfielder Oftense Nato, just 22, as one to watch in Africa's Team of 2011.

It's quite incredible that we're seeing young people understand how precious that action and ability is".

To defenders of baseball and literary fiction, the charges against each are familiar, and overlapping: too slow, too precious, not enough action.

But as global warming accelerates, every week is a precious opportunity for action.

His faith in human nature is almost as precious as his actions.

The quake had also put three of Giuliani's precious radometers out of action.