Why We Chose These: It is a daunting task to plan to teach the Sept. 11 attacks and how they changed our world, especially to students who were too young to remember the day, or have precious little background knowledge about it.
The war orphans are not just "poor Japanese" but have the precious cultural background of having "crossed borders," which ordinary Japanese do not have.
"[Snarling continues]," as the closed captioning says: in the background, one precious brown-skulled howler howls on.
Perhaps it was partly because of his background in precious metal that he produced mostly small-scale works.
In the latter instance, your research background offers precious insight into the needs of the organizations' members.
So far the inquiry has provided precious little documentary evidence as background to its hearings.
Over the past 3 years, CEPHIA has entered into collaborations and material transfer agreements to establish a large repository of precious plasma specimens with sufficient clinical background data.
"You're standing on hallowed ground; it's precious land," Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., a former mayor of Paterson, told about 50 preservationists and local government officials as the falls in the background tumbled 77 feet into a gorge.
Rather like IMHO, this is pseudo self-effacement; with the background implication that your time is too precious to actually check, and that we should simply be grateful for this spark flickering from the vast Van Der Graaf Generator of your mind.
On "Precious Memories," which involved a powerful blend of several background singers, and "Ain't No Way," which featured Cissy Houston (though not in her original soprano role), Ms. Franklin sang with conviction, gravity and fire.
