Though many families cannot read Arabic, the manuscripts are regarded as precious heirlooms that cannot be sold.
Cacti have been regarded as "precious collectable objects" by Europeans ever since they were discovered, it adds.
If Cadbury (now owned by Mondelēz International, formerly Kraft Foods) is to be trusted regarding the precious recipe, can the new shape really be affecting the chocolate's taste?
These shabby items, made of ordinary materials meant to last years, not decades, are now regarded as precious because of the horrific events they evoke.
Where the elderly once represented the power center of the family, Mr. Yuan said the only child, regarded as precious, is the new center.
As a child in Brooklyn, he says, he impatiently discarded the wrapping on presents and threw himself at the boxes, which he regarded as precious raw material.
Yet the works that were once erased by angry councils and property owners are now regarded as precious treasures to be preserved, or broken off the building and sold.
In a new study, Piers Mitchell and Jenna Dittmar, of the Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, reveal that the little bodies were obtained with considerable difficulty, but were regarded as precious- a way of demonstrating human growth and development - and treated with great care to preserve them for display and teaching.
In this account patients' rights are central and life is regarded as precious and priceless so even high cost treatments that deliver limited benefits should not be withheld from patients.
Malala, now a pupil at Edgbaston School for Girls, urged British students to regard education as precious.
