Another concern: use of batteries and data, precious commodities among smartphone owners.
Many priests said that had ultimately affected morale — a precious commodity among an increasingly aging and overworked clergy.
Who is to be trusted with the question of that precious spot, among only a few thousand, to which one will dedicate the next book?
Look for glass-blowing, pricey designer fashions and precious jewelry among the 130 displays that will occupy the new Library Green in the city's downtown.
A printmaker when she joined the abbey in 1976, she now works in marble, bronze, clay, stained glass, wood, copper and precious stones, among other materials.
"The Sun Chemist" (Knopf, 1976) involves the quest for a precious formula among the papers of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel and a research chemist.
We'd barely said hello before he gave me the Apfelschnapps to sample, but only a few precious drops: among his other eccentricities, Jesche is not much of a drinker.
Should I point out the most precious contribution among the many he gave to contemporary philosophy, I would mention his anti-skeptical arguments, as embedded in his general theory of meaning and truth.
Unmodulated shock and outrage, however, not only burn precious credibility among the president's opponents, but eventually will exhaust the public and increase the already staggering amount of cynicism paralyzing our national political life.
