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The fact that the people who made this movie put so little effort into it is genuinely insulting to anyone who has chosen to invest
precious
time in this excuse for a movie.
Jason Ritter plays a fearsome character, but just as the protagonist, Charlie Banks, expressed his need to "protect" him, I too sensed something in him that was
precious.
He is an awful person for allowing such
precious
film to be wasted.
Watching this took away
precious
time from my life that I'll never regain.
If you don't want to waste your
precious
time or fall asleep upon watching your April getting from one side of screen to another you just press escape several times and she gets where she's going in a few (real-time) seconds.
The viewer experiences Anna's journey through the last few months of her life and what she chooses to do with that
precious
time.
There is the potential for oil and gas exploration, and of mining iron ore and
precious
metals.
Not only was
precious
time wasted, but further damage was done.
So, after all the tourists that irrigate this poor region with
precious
income leave the viewing platforms below the falls, authorities close the sluice gates that dam the White Water River on the dangerously low upstream reservoir, and the falls cease.
Parfit was not only a remarkable philosopher; he was also extraordinarily generous with the resource that was most
precious
to him: his time.
In the original vision of central banking, price stability was not at all an obvious purpose, since the value of money was cast in terms of specific weights of
precious
metals.
China balks at interfering in the “internal affairs” of a neighbor from whom it gets
precious
natural gas and potential access to the sea.
Rational humans, Kant concludes, must recognize that they have a duty to abstain from a practice (lying) that, if adopted by everyone at once, would annul our most
precious
invention (language).
Rescuing the Amazon ForestsDeveloping countries are blessed with some of the world’s most
precious
natural resources.
Education is the most important investment we can make in our most
precious
assets – our children – and we will not tolerate even the slightest threat to it.
In the fight against cancer, medical advances can shave
precious
percentage points off of mortality rates, which implies that improved access to vaccines can have a massive impact, slashing the number of future cases in developing countries for just a few dollars per dose.
Like the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, the French Revolution’s clarion call for universal rights can be admired only from behind bullet-proof glass, and it is definitely too
precious
to be exported.
On this issue, the Bush administration wasted eight
precious
years during which we have gotten perilously close to the point at which an irreversible chain of events could occur that leads to catastrophe.
If we make provisions for long lives that are cut short, we will have wasted huge amounts of
precious
economic resources.
MADRID – After years of intensifying fragmentation and tension, the European Union may be on the verge of losing its most
precious
assets: peace, prosperity, freedom of movement, and values such as tolerance, openness, and unity.
Its emperors used silver from Persia, glass from Europe,
precious
stones from Central Asia, and gold implements from India.
In particular, despite more than three decades of legal reform in China, Chen had
precious
little recourse to fight harassment and house arrest at the hands of the Chinese authorities.
The gains of enlightened discourse are too
precious
to be turned into negotiable values.
Several African countries are already experiencing reduced rainfall, soil degradation, and the depletion of
precious
natural resources, which has a direct impact on the livelihoods of two-thirds of Sub-Saharan Africans.
The US has fought and spilled
precious
blood to give the nations in the Asia-Pacific the opportunity to achieve prosperity and security.
As a high-ranking European Commission official once asked me: “Your debt will be cut come hell or high water, so why are you expending
precious
political capital to insist that we deliver the restructuring now?”
It thus delivered to its followers that most
precious
and intangible of human needs: a sense of worth and belonging.
According to China’s Ministry of Land Resources, there were more than 90,000 cases of illegal land transfers last year, yet there were
precious
few prosecutions.
Another accomplishment was the record-high abstention rate: 57% of French voters disdained the rare and
precious
privilege of voting, a privilege invented several centuries ago by men who believed in deliberation, reason, and enlightenment.
Fifth, we must reform how we manage water resources and water infrastructure, so that this
precious
resource can be re-used several times, and on a city-wide scale .
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