It's like losing a precious part of the world.

However, the United Nations represents a valuable achievement that has to be reinforced and preserved.

It's a nice item for the gossips.

It had pearl inlay. Looked very valuable.

Hurry! Hurry!

We'll steal something expensive, the same car, one could draw from the city.

The guy's dead, we had him insured... and it's going to cost us dough.

The US has fought and spilled precious blood to give the nations in the Asia Pacific the opportunity to achieve prosperity and security.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ

Properly read, our fears can offer us something as precious as our favorite works of literature a little wisdom, a bit of insight and a version of that most elusive thing the truth.

Treated waste water and excreta can be considered as a valuable resource with the potential for reuse, and in some cases for sale, with the revenues helping to recoup treatment costs.

202. Throughout the Organization, and in all of its activities, the experience of staff who are working in the field to advance development adds an invaluable source of balance, perspective and understanding.

Additional examples of organizations providing valuable support for emergency response and humanitarian relief were MapAction (http www.mapaction. org index.html) and Global MapAid (http www.globalmapaid.rdvp.org ).

Other important players in the endeavour are the global road safety steering committee under the secretariat of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society and the World Bank, who have all given me invaluable support and encouragement.

This collective venture, to which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has lent its steady support, also manifests the resolve of States to work together to eradicate the inequality, injustice and instability that arise from the arms race and its root conflicts.