Sentence examples for precious link from inspiring English sources

For the soldiers who sought sanctuary here, it was a precious link with the peaceful life that they had left behind.

The precious link between Labour and the unions becomes a liability rather than an advantage when it is allowed to look like a transaction".

But her memories of him, their conversations and the few souvenirs she has of his time as a teenage soldier in the muddy horror of the western front provide an extraordinary, fragile and precious link with the great war.

They're a precious link to a common source, reminders of a shared past, and for those of us who live in nuclear families, a halfway house to the outside world, both intimate yet distant.

A few held fast to our then thousand-year-old religion and its precious link to our Creator.

"My team has precious links to a large community of education professionals in PNG, such as Carol Abiri.

Hank Jones, a jazz pianist who is one of our most precious links to bebop, will be there; so will George Mraz, a consummate bassist, and the idiosyncratic drummer Paul Motian.

Among those clustering around it was a group of old men in winter overcoats, whose presence went unnoticed by many but who represented precious links with the company's traditions.

And he is aware of the thousands of vivid, precious links in the Franco-Scottish alliance, the oldest in the world ... ....Some historians trace this amity back to a Scottish king, John Balliol, and France's King Philippe le Bel more than seven centuries ago.

They seem too rare, too precious a link to the wilderness.

Many among them were Kashmiris – Hindus and Muslims — from the United States and Britain who wanted to carry a piece of art with them as a precious, bittersweet link to a home that now signified a lost world.