"Precious resources" refers to valuable and limited things that are vital for survival or important for various purposes.
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Waiting to invest is leaving money on the table and above all else, you are wasting the
most precious resource of all: time.
Many people are unaware that meat production creates harmful greenhouse gases and requires increasingly unsustainable levels
of precious resources including land, water and energy.
Perhaps the time has come for the world to consider a fourth revolution, aimed no longer at objects but at understanding the most
precious resource on earth — ourselves.
Your muscles can only grow at a limited speed, it doesn't make any sense to
waste precious resources on work and food you don't need in the first place.
All of that activity happening on the page keeps the content from displaying and
uses precious resources on your device, including data and processing power.
My biggest complaint with Destiny is the shop system, which allows players to buy items
with precious resources gained in battle, or found by thoroughly searching environments and destroying unused gear.
Also, here in the hippie household we use vegan sugar for coffee (thus, making is a far
more precious resource).
The system is meant to evoke an emotional response to energy consumption in future inhabitants and ultimately help
conserve precious resources.
Many of the villagers also argue he is taking
precious resources away from the younger generation, the ones who are the future of the country.
It requires increasingly unsustainable levels of
precious resources including land, water and energy, and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation and climate change.
So there's little doubt that much, much more can be done by most cities to cut waste, and keep
precious resources out of landfill.
In many cases the costs of use and adoption have a lot more to do with the calculated allocation of scarce personal time and
precious resources rather than with just dollars and cents.
That said, it's difficult for small and medium businesses to
dedicate precious resources to marketing — especially with the «if it ain't broke, don't fix it» mentality.
Each has helped us refine our construction methods and building efficiencies, but over time that progress has cost our
planet precious resources.
The real problem is that there are too many people, especially rich people, and all the people are putting out too much carbon dioxide and using up too
many precious resources.
And, worse yet, spending money and getting less than nothing by hurting our
most precious resource as a state: our children.
But some districts say they're not ready to
use precious resources to experiment with online learning while facing steep funding cuts.
There's a distinct reddish brown wash that reduces the color count considerably, preserving
precious resources for things like the detailing on the badass Metal Gear REX in the background.
And I'm hoping that the Chartered College, because it is free from political mandates and the immediate pressure that comes with working with
as precious a resource as children, can provide the time, space and expertise to develop such a vision.
Thus investment in these technologies
diverts precious resources from more effective solutions and hinders rather than helps the effort to reduce GHG emissions.
Climate adaptation poses a conundrum to the western decision maker tasked with managing
precious resources like water, energy, land, or wildlife habitat.
There's also an issue of value — without compunction, a standard of some sort to meet / conform to — some schools won't put
precious resources into research.
Six months after they'd opened their doors, the market was proving almost too popular — parking spaces and seating have
become precious resources, and Shackelford and Lancaster said plans were in place to ease those issues and to reduce the strain on the narrow streets that now fill up with visitors every weekend — many of them from the surrounding suburbs.
Going meatless once a week may reduce your risk of chronic preventable conditions and help reduce your carbon footprint -
saving precious resources like fresh water and fossil fuel.
Collect precious resources on the surfaces of planets and trade them for the ships, suits and equipment that will take you to your destiny in the stars.
This has the advantage that the plant will not waste
precious resources by producing large quantities of the mutant Rep when it is not needed.
After Magalan is hit with a meteor, the surviving population must decide how to best allocate the most
precious resource at their disposal, Elex, which arrived with the meteor and is capable of powering both technology and magic, as well as being consumed to heighten strength and logic.
the unintended consequence of these funding arrangements in diverting
precious resources from service delivery towards administrative compliance
Instead, he
devoted precious resources to teaching Adler how to teach, hiring a personal coach to attend his classes regularly and meet with him for 45 minutes a week.
It's time we Americans woke up to the fact that our desire to be «tough on crime» has gone way past the point of fairness and usefulness and is now just ruining lives and
consuming precious resources that could be far better used elsewhere.
In response, GlaxoWellcome warned that if it became too difficult to get drugs prescribed in the UK it might take its R&D effort to other countries,
draining precious resources out of the UK economy.
On top of that is a bizarre vision of the end of the world that includes a large number of themed gangs doing battle over
what precious resources remain.
Upstate lawmakers are fuming that the National Weather Service didn't update its storm forecast for the Big Apple, leading the city to
receive precious resources that were more desperately needed up north.
That means your body enters energy conservation mode and spends
remaining precious resources on only the vital processes, like brain and cardiovascular function, to keep you alive and conserve energy.
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