Sentence examples for precious rewards from inspiring English sources

Yes, I actively encouraged myself to reap the precious rewards of a birth-rite that seemed to carry with it so many unjust punishments.

I am reminded that sometimes it's the opposite of striving that brings the most precious reward.

The horror of Saturday's 3-2 defeat at Crystal Palace was forgotten as Brighton put their bodies on the line to earn precious reward.

When I die, the only form of identification on my person will be a Give Me More Stripes rewards card, because it's the most precious, rewarding thing I had going for me in this world.

Across the spectrum of mutual funds, however, investors saw only risk and precious little reward during the year.

Things have got better in Glasgow East in the past few years, as new housing has sprung up around the great council estates of Shettleston and Easterhouse, but it is precious little reward for voting Labour for decades.

The Wingacie letter — which possibly predates the ill-fated Roanoke-colony expedition by a few years — dispels the conventional assessment that Raleigh's expeditions were blindly focussed on precious metals and quick rewards.

The precious cash back or rewards that you'll earn are negated by that extra cost.

On some level, Joan wants to follow "the rules" for being a successful woman, but there are precious few rules and rewards for the kind of life she's trying to lead as both a mother and a successful professional.

And in Toxic Alberta, we catch up with Ft. McMurray's First Nations population (for all you yankees, that's polite-speak for injuns) who've not too surprisingly borne the brunt of the ill effects associated with the region's oil boom and reaped precious few of the rewards.

Later he gave this man his precious knife as a reward and soothed his conscience that way.