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At a time of growing concern about climate change, Europeans should be made aware of the long-term destruction done to a
precious
and fragile habitat for the sake of a short-term high.
They will agree that our ability to distinguish right from wrong is something
precious
that we should safeguard, not a broken clock that scientists should fix.
Yet women are
precious
in their own way.
Among most of Southeast Asia's ethnic Chinese, the presence of even a hint of allegiance to a secular distinction between faith and state in a Muslim leader is admired like a
precious
gem.
The Viet Kieu, as the Vietnamese diaspora is called, are returning by the thousands, bringing to Vietnam the
precious
American dollar.
Already, Lebanon is being forced to make painful cuts and surrender
precious
ground.
But even then, I will get something more
precious
out of a policy of state disestablishment — and that is the construction of a political system in which no citizen disparages the ultimate convictions held by others.
Moreover, it is harder for Palestinians to demonstrate themselves, because they risk losing their
precious
residency permits in Jerusalem.
There are
precious
few Jews left in Tehran, Damascus, or Cairo.
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA – Winston Churchill once said that, in wartime, truth was so
precious
that it needed to be surrounded by a “bodyguard of lies.”
By contrast, African countries often see the worst sides of multinationals: energy, mineral, and
precious
metal companies go where resources are, not where it’s pleasant to work.
And Winston Churchill once said that the truth may be “so
precious
that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
To preserve its
precious
foreign-currency reserves, Egypt needs the US and its allies to provide foodstuffs.
We could even wish them immortal...”The second reason applies to the hard-working rich, the type of person who“devotes himself forever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness....With the most unrelenting industry he labors night and day....serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises....[I]n the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments....he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility....Power and riches....keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death...”In short, on the one hand, we don’t wish to disrupt the perfect felicity of the lifestyles of the rich and famous; on the other hand, we don’t wish to add to the burdens of those who have spent their most
precious
possession – their time and energy – pursuing baubles.
Every child is precious, and every child deserves the right to learn.
Assuming a flat rate of national contributions to the federal budget, Greece, for example, would shed 2-3
precious
percentage points from its public deficit.
Ocean acidification and warming has been occurring at alarming rates, and are already having a serious impact on some of our most
precious
marine ecosystems – an impact that will only intensify.
Cory Aquino’s LegacyMANILA – The death of President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino – "Tita Cory" to most of the 92 million people of the Philippines – left behind a
precious
inheritance: a legacy of freedom that the Philippines came to share with oppressed peoples around the world.
For starters, it is a historic ally for which many Chinese fought and died, their memory enshrined not only on monuments throughout China (though
precious
few in North Korea), but also in families.
Lakhani points to the bitter irony that Pakistan's 143 million people have sacrificed much in demanding democratic rights and self-determination for Kashmir's 13 million people, while enjoying
precious
few of those same rights at home for the past 55 years.
The most
precious
asset today is confidence, and the mere fact of launching negotiations would generate it in abundance.
In wartime, when loose lips can sink ships and secrets are crucial, Winston Churchill argued that the truth may be “so
precious
that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our
precious
biodiversity.
Uribe may still back down, though he is leaving himself
precious
little wiggle room to decline re-election after all that his supporters have done to allow it.
Unfortunately, however, financial intermediaries take an average of 9% of the
precious
earnings that migrants send home.
With much of the water in its rivers, lakes, and aquifers unfit for human consumption, pristine water has become the new oil for China – a
precious
and vital resource, the overexploitation of which risks wrecking the natural environment.
In recent years, Chinese-controlled companies have launched a mining frenzy on the plateau that not only damages landscapes sacred to Tibetans, but also is eroding Tibet’s ecology further – including by polluting its
precious
water.
These are not necessarily xenophobic questions: a post-enlightenment civil society, with a free press and due process, is a
precious
thing, and those values should not be sacrificed to politically correct moral relativism.
In Europe, where countries have banded together since the end of World War II, yielding some
precious
individual sovereignty in order to construct a more stable whole, the struggles of the common currency have instilled fear in citizens’ hearts – and in their votes.
We might try to tap bio-fuels, but only in forms that do not compete with food supplies or with
precious
environmental assets.
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