Sentence examples for precious value from inspiring English sources

This octogenarian's perseverance was probably the best civic lesson ever given at P.S. 66, where he taught all the true meaning and precious value of one man, one vote.

They have history, "the most precious value," he said, and they "point to the future," when "we will all buy pieces for our body — new retinas, new livers, new body appliances to be more fit and to last more".

Asked whether he was trying to deny students in Harlem the kind of choice that he had, Mr. Perkins said: "I understand that drive and the precious value of parents being concerned and willing to do whatever they need to do to get the best education for their children and get it whatever way they can.

Therefore, a faster and more practical method for calculation of gas-condensates well flow rate has a precious value.

Increasing housing demand and the precious value of city land have caused to the construction of multi-storey, deep-plan and compact buildings.

This is a veritable global oppression: it forces upon your doorsteps products from all over the world without the bother to personally travel and pick them up, hence stripping them of the precious value of something that costs not only money but effort to get.

Creative social and economic initiatives are precious values in an uncertain place.

Mr. Bush's policies "compromised our most precious values," Mr. Obama said then.

Family, friends and colleagues have lost an exemplar of decency, precious values and enormous strength through adversity.

"In the dark halls of Abu Ghraib and the detention cells of Guantánamo, we have compromised our most precious values," he said.

And what the country has witnessed is that those precious values – excellence, friendship and respect – can be so much more than just words," she said.